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Students of the University of Edinburgh of Scotland came here to Bangladesh to research eSheBee activities. They did research and feedback to us. Here are some feedback from them:
The role of shadow education in empowering women: stories from rural Bangladesh
Abstract
In this study, I argue that tutoring _ known as shadow education an unrecognized site of
empowerment for girls and women in rural Bangladesh. The more common discourse on empowering
rural women in Bangladesh tends to focus on market-driven development interventions such as social enterprise and microfinance but the impact of this approach is disputed by a growing number of anthropologists and my findings concur with them.
Tutoring is on the rise; not only are more female students paying for extra tutoring older adolescent girls and women also find work as informal tutors. I find shadow education is under-researched and has not been studied as a site of empowerment, nor has it been explored as a practice that could help contribute to Bangladesh’s education development agenda, which increasingly is concerned with issues of quality and gender equity.
These conclusions were made possible by analyzing the life stories of 43 women who have
experienced empowerment in these various forms. By looking at their lived experiences,l have
identified the aspects that the women value the most and why. I end my study by reconceptualizing the often-contested term ’empowerment’, to one Which is more synchronous with the women’s lives and values.
In this study, I argue that tutoring _ known as shadow education an unrecognized site of
empowerment for girls and women in rural Bangladesh. The more common discourse on empowering
rural women in Bangladesh tends to focus on market-driven development interventions such as social enterprise and microfinance but the impact of this approach is disputed by a growing number of anthropologists and my findings concur with them.
Tutoring is on the rise; not only are more female students paying for extra tutoring older adolescent girls and women also find work as informal tutors.I find shadow education is under-researched and has not been studied as a site of empowerment, nor has it been explored as a practice that could help contribute to Bangladesh’s education development agenda, which increasingly is concerned with issues of quality and gender equity.
These conclusions were made possible by analyzing the life stories of 43 women who have
experienced empowerment in these various forms. By looking at their lived experiences,l have
identified the aspects that the women value the most and why. I end my study by reconceptualizing the often-contested term ’empowerment’, to one Which is more synchronous with the women’s lives and values.
How women in rural Bangladesh manage kinship expectations to work as entrepreneurs
Abstract
Since independence and economic instability in 1971, Bangladesh has experienced many forms of Development, seeing the birth of microfinance and its market-driven theories of poverty alleviation, and thousands of local NGOs providing social services. Many of these targeted women as a marginalized group in Bangladesh’s patriarchal society. They exploited Bangladesh’s community-oriented culture by manipulating group dynamics as a form of organizational control, which often ruptured relationships. ESD (Entrepreneurship
Social development) is a rural Bangladeshi social enterprise founded in 2014, that seeks to increase gender equality through helping women start businesses. lt recognizes the influence of communities, particularly kinship networks, on women’s lives. However, ESD
sees, the family’s positive potential to support women, and so instead of working against family’ ESD seeks to increase women’s agency within conventional family structures. ESD’s family-oriented strategies of building trust and influence in women’s families are effective in helping women persuade families of the benefits of entrepreneurship. However, when families reject entrepreneurship, ESD’s family-friendly policies become ineffective in helping women gain any agency.
Challenging Cast-Based Discrimination and Socio-Structural Constraints to Inclusion in Rural Bangladesh
Abstract
The rise of entrepreneurship as a strategy for development in the Global South is a reflection of growing geopolitical interest in free market economics and the creation of democratic societies as a means to maximize global social welfare. Entrepreneurship, however, presents significant challenges to non-Western economies without attention to social, political, and economic barriers facing the entrepreneur in his or her local context-resulting in failed development attempts and stagnant markets.
Despite academic critiques challenging the development sector, there is reason to press further into the spirit of entrepreneurship beyond its function as a money-making entity for the poor. This dissertation explores the utilization of spontaneous and non-institutionalized entrepreneurship in rural Bangladesh, analyzing how entrepreneurs challenge various polarities of inequality and create socio-structural change. I argue that socio-political motivations driving entrepreneurs incite a form of entrepreneurship that aims to achieve radical ends, opening new pathways for the study of radical entrepreneurship as an avenue for the pursuit of upward mobility amongst marginalized groups in South Asia and elsewhere.
Aspirations, Agency, and Interdependence of Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Bangladesh
Abstract
This project was conducted as part of a broader research agenda covering social enterprise and entrepreneurship development in Bangladesh(Huang 2016,2017,2018). It seeks to understand the role of external-organization-led entrepreneurial training in the cultivation
of aspirations among female participants in rural Bangladesh. The researcher argues for and establishes a more nuanced approach to aspirations beyond a ‘capacity to aspire’, and takes account of a relational and structural view of poverty. Resource profiles among the poor, and a more robust understanding of local culture in the development of aspirations. Aspirations reflect the deep cultural relationships of social dependency and reciprocity in Bangladesh, where women aspire for social recognition and the capacity to give back. Processes of aspirational attainment serve as pathways of empowerment, where confidence gained in training catalyzes new methods of shoring up resources and avenues of agency in the home and local community. By extending an analysis of positionality and dependence to the organizational level, social interdependency at the local level and struggles with native global development paradigms render the organization’s work and the future of women entrepreneurs uncertain.