Joseph R. Dominick, Gail E. Rauch
That women are still stereotyped despite the continuing activism of the women's liberation movement is clearly demonstrated in the following study of a sample of early 1971 network TV ads. Focusing on the advertising viewed in millions of homes during prime‐time, the authors conclude that women are ...
Rachel Jewkes, Emma Fulu, Tim Roselli, Claudia García‐Moreno
BACKGROUND: Rape perpetration is under-researched. In this study, we aimed to describe the prevalence of, and factors associated with, male perpetration of rape of non-partner women and of men, and the reasons for rape, from nine sites in Asia and the Pacific across six countries: Bangladesh, China,...
Russell L. Kent, S. E. MOSS
The effects of sex and gender role on self- and group perceptions of leader emergence were examined. Though women were slightly more likely to emerge as leaders than men, gender role had a stronger...
V. Spike Peterson
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I am grateful to Georgina Waylen for her generosity in sharing prepublication work with me; and to Drucilla Barker, Jen Cohen, Deb Figart, Ellen Mutari, Julie Nelson, Paulette Olsen and Ara Wilson for conference discussions reg...
Kazi Md Mukitul Islam, M. Niaz Asadullah
Using government secondary school English language textbooks from Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, we conducted a quantitative content analysis in order to identify gender stereotypes in school education. In total, 21 categories of exclusion and quality of representation were used to st...
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen et al.
BACKGROUND: Under natural circumstances, the sex ratio of male to female mortality up to the age of 5 years is greater than one but sex discrimination can change sex ratios. The estimation of mortality by sex and identification of countries with outlying levels is challenging because of issues with ...
Manju Rani, Sekhar Bonu
Using demographic and health surveys conducted between 1998 and 2001 from seven countries (Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Turkey), the study found that acceptance of wife beating ranged from 29% in Nepal, to 57% in India (women only), and from 26% in Kazakhstan, to 56% ...
Nahar Papreen, Anjali Sharma, Keith Sabin, Lutfa Begum et al.
AbstractAbstractThis paper explores the perceived causes of infertility, treatment-seeking for infertility and the consequences of childlessness, particularly for women, among a predominantly Muslim population in urban slums of Dhaka in Bangladesh. In-depth interviews were conducted with 60 women an...
Raewyn Connell
518 Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Raewyn Connell Rethinking Gender from the South Dilemmas of Feminism Going Global From the time of the first UN World Conference on Women, in Mexico City in 1975, the hegemony of the global North in feminism was contested. That histori...
S. M. Mostafa Kamal, Che Hashim Hassan, Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Ying Yang
This study examines the trends and determinants of child marriage among women aged 20-49 in Bangladesh. Data were extracted from the last six nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys conducted during 1993-2011. Simple cross-tabulation and multivariate binary logistic regression analy...
Geraldine Healy, Harriet Bradley, Cynthia Forson
Using Acker's conceptual framework of inequality regimes, this article explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Our concern is to investigate how inequality regimes are sustained...
Elissa Kennedy, Gerda Binder, Karen Humphries-Waa, Tom Tidhar et al.
BACKGROUND: By adulthood, gender inequalities in health and wellbeing are apparent. Yet, the timing and nature of gender inequalities during childhood and adolescence are less clear. We describe the emergence of gender inequalities in health and wellbeing across the first two decades of life. METHOD...
Yesmin Akhter, Mohammad Zakaria Mohaimin, Mustafa Murshed, Peter Ezeah et al.
Pranab Kumar Panday
This article explores the state of women's participation in the political process in Bangladesh. Available data substantiates that women's organizations, donors, and nongovernmental organizations have influenced the government of Bangladesh to introduce quotas for women. Although quotas have increas...
John Cleland
Demographic trends have taken many surprising forms over the last 30 years, but none have aroused such surprise, even incredulity, as recent events in Bangladesh. Although this country remains one of the poorest and least developed of all nations, there is mounting evidence of a steep decline in fer...