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Conceptual Framework on Socio-Cultural Status and Women's Empowerment: Implications for Sustainable Development
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Author(s): Khadezatul Kobra (Pabna University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh), Emaj Uddin (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh), Tuhin Roy (Khulna University, Bangladesh)and Mohammad Zamirul Islam (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 22
Source title:
Empowering Women Through Rural Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gül Erkol Bayram (Sinop University, Turkey), Ali Turan Bayram (Sinop University, Turkey)and Melike Sak (Selcuk University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-6572-4.ch002
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Abstract
Although women's empowerment varies across communities and cultures, past research has poorly conceptualized how sociocultural status influences variations in women's empowerment between two or more subcultures within a given society. Based on theory and literature review, this chapter develops a new conceptual framework that helps understand relationships between sociocultural status and women's empowerment between two or more subcultures in a given geographic territory or a given society. In so doing, the authors conceptualize sociocultural status into 1) socioeconomic status (e.g., education, occupation, income, or inheritance of family property) and 2) cultural status (e.g., values, norms, attitudes, tradition, autonomy) that may induce variations in women's empowerment (e.g., control over resources and participation in decision-making), after accounting for background factors. This new broad-based conceptual framework induces cross-cultural variations in women's empowerment across societies that may have practical implications in enhancing women's empowerment for sustainable development.
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