Analyzing the Gender Sensitivity of Rural Advisory Services in Bangladesh

Author: M. Wakilur Rahman, Nishith Zahan Tanny, M. Serajul Islam , 2017

Analyzing the Gender Sensitivity of Rural Advisory Services in Bangladesh, M. Wakilur Rahman, Nishith Zahan Tanny, M. Serajul Islam, 2017

Gender relations in Bangladesh have been undergoing a process of considerable transformation over the past thirty years as part of a broader process of economic transition and societal change. Women farmers made up 40 percent of the total agricultural labor force in 2010, with a 7 percent growth in women’s participation in agriculture between 2005 and 2010 (Akter et.al., 2015). Evidence shows that the wage difference between men and women in agriculture decreased from 40% to 30% for the year 2011/12 to 2013/14, which can be taken as a positive change (FPMU, 2015; BBS Monthly Bulletin, 2015), although the gap is still very high. Despite such progress, Bangladeshi women are still primarily considered to be unpaid family labor (56.3% of women in the labor force), and their contributions to agriculture are not fully recognized, neither in the household and communities nor at the national level (SFYP, 2015).

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