Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Shamsul Huda Badal
Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men's violence...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Rachel Lenzi, Shamsul Huda Badal, Sohela Nazneen
Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between women's empowerment and IPV, in which violence against women first increases...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Rachel Lenzi, Shamsul Huda Badal, Lisa M. Bates
Literature on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and women's empowerment is contradictory. Findings from a recent survey in rural Bangladesh suggest that empowerment is becoming protective even though IPV rates remain high. We construct qualitative case studies ex...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Shamsul Huda Badal