Farah Deeba Chowdhury
This article focuses on the reasons for child marriage in a Bangladeshi village. Although the mean age of marriage for women in Bangladesh is currently 20.2, nearly half of all girls are married before the age of 18. In Bangladesh, female sexuality is controlled through early marriage and the custom...
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
Abstract Women's participation in politics is extremely limited in Bangladesh despite the country having had two prominent women leaders. Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia gained the highest leadership positions in the government and the opposition through their family connections due to the low level o...
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
Dowry increased with the expansion of capitalist relations that help capital accumulation by men in Bangladesh. It has been turned into ‘demand, extortion, material gain, and profit maximization’. The most common motives behind the dowry system are the grooms’ and their families’ greed, growing cons...
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
This thesis entitled “Problems of Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study” finds that women’s participation in politics is extremely limited in Bangladesh despite the unique experience of having a woman prime minister and a woman opposition leader. How did Bangladesh get th...
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
People living in developing countries want to migrate to developed countries because of increasing economic disparities. They are attracted to migrate because of material affluence, economic prosperity and political stability of the developed world. Canadian immigration laws restrict immigration for...
Chowdhury, Farah Deeba
The Canadian economy has been suffering from the damaging impact of COVID-19. The adverse impact of COVID-19 on employment and income has been unevenly affecting different socio-economic and demographic groups in Canada. Labour market impact of COVID-19 disproportionately affected immigrants, partic...