Sohela Nazneen
women's political inclusion has had a chequered history in Bangladesh. Women were key actors within the Bengali nationalist movement but 15 years of military dictatorship and the rise of religious institutions within politics posed challenges to the advancement of women's rights. This chapter explor...
Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan
Sohela Nazneen
In this paper, I investigate how binary framings of women’s identity have influenced struggles for women’s rights and the interpretations of the relationship between Islam and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. These binary framings position women at opposite ends by diving them between ‘Muslim/reli...
Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan, Naomi Hossain
Marjoke Oosterom, Lopita Huq, Victoria Flavia Namuggala, Sohela Nazneen et al.
There is a strong belief that employment is a crucial avenue for the empowerment of young women, through income, greater autonomy, and bargaining power within the family. However, experiences of workplace sexual harassment undermine these potential gains. This qualitative study among agro-processing...
Sohela Nazneen
This paper is an evidence review of how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The review shows that while the quota system has increased women’s presence in local government, intersections...
Sohela Nazneen
The paper analyses the discourses on women’s empowerment among the three main political parties in Bangladesh: the Awami League (AL), Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami. It argues that the Islamist party, Jamaat, has taken a more comprehensive view of women’s empowerment compared...
Jerker Edström, Jenny Edwards, Chloe Skinner, Tessa Lewin et al.
Whilst international policy between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s gave some hope for progress on gender equality, events since then – including conflicts, climate change, the pandemic, and an increasingly insecure world – have thrown these hopes into doubt. Far from steady progress on gender equality,...
Naomi Hossain, Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan
This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women’s empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women’s empowerment in public discourse and reviews the meanings and uses of the term by selected women’s organisations, donor agencies, ...
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, Rosalind Eyben, Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan et al.
This report concerns the historical trajectory of women's rights organisations (WROs) in Bangladesh and Ghana within the changing national contexts as well as the shifting international aid landscape in the last two decades and identifies the influence of external financing on what the organisations...
Dushyantha Mendis
Introduction Editor's Introduction: South Asian Democracies in Transition - Dushyantha Mendis PART ONE: COUNTRY PAPERS Bangladesh - Muzzafer Ahmad India - Partha S Ghosh Nepal - Birendra Prasad Mishra, Krishna P Khanal and Nilamber Acharya Pakistan - Rasul Bakhsh Rais Sri Lanka - K M de Silva PART T...
Sohela Nazneen
Women have made substantial gains in health, education, and political representation in Bangladesh, which has been led by female prime ministers since 1991. Women play a key role in the garment industry, the country’s main export sector, and entrepreneurial ventures funded by microcredit loans have ...
Sohela Nazneen, Lopita Huq
Summary Motivation There are 1.3 million domestic workers in Bangladesh; the precarious and private nature of domestic work makes them vulnerable to sexual harassment. Prevalent social norms that regulate sexuality and notions of family honour lead to victim blaming and normalization of male aggress...
Masi Noor, Sohela Nazneen
The present research seeks to answer the question of what determines an uninvolved third party's forgiveness attitudes toward conflicting groups' violent partisan members. Specifically, Bangladeshi participants read a fictitious interview with a radicalized Palestinian who declared his intention to ...
Mariz Tadros
* Introduction. Engaging Politically: Rethinking Women's Pathways to Power? * Mariz Tadros * 1. Politics as Service: Pathways of District Assembly Women in Ghana * Takyiwaa Manuh * 2. Exceptional Women: Reserved Councillors in Municipal Corporations in Bangladesh * Sohela Nazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Ba...