Book
The Invisible resource: women and work in rural Bangladesh
Westview Press • Boulder • Published In 1987 • Pages: xiii, 161
By: Wallace, Ben J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The economic activities of Bangladesh women, like those of many other women in Third World countries throughout the world, are hidden or even disregarded because the society of which they are part perceives their work more as wifely duties rather than important contributions to the general economy. This study examines this phenomena as it existed in the villages of Choto Kalampur and Jalsha Borohissa during the period of field work in 1984-1985. Three primary goals of the research study, discussed in detail in the text, were to: (1) identify specific economic and non-economic activities of rural women; (2) examine the amount of time alloted to each of these activities; and (3) describe the many ways in which women have contributed to agricultural activities in the region. The source concludes with a discussion of the implications of the research findings to future government policies and aid programs in Bangladesh.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Life history materials
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Textile agriculture
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Daily routine
- Gender status
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bengali
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1984-1985 [p. 7]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- villages of Choto Kalampur and Jalsha Borohissa, Bangladesh
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ben J. Wallace …[et al.]
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. 151-156
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86032614
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis