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Gender and Ethnic Discrimination: Life of Mainstream and Indigenous Women in Bangladesh
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Author(s): Ferdous Jahan (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), Sharif Abdul Wahab (Ohio University, USA)and Fairooz Binte Hafiz (Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), Bangladesh)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 16
Source title:
Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nazmunnessa Mahtab (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), Sara Parker (John Moores University, UK), Farah Kabir (Action Aid, Bangladesh), Tania Haque (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), Aditi Sabur (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)and Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0279-1.ch009
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Abstract
Socioeconomic inequality among men and women is a major hindrance in ensuring equal advancement for all human being to live a dignified life. Minority status of women further exacerbates inequalities faced by women belonging to small ethnic groups. The chapter explores gender inequality across three small ethnic minorities' groups in Bangladesh. Applying Nussbaum's capability approach to analyze the situation of women with different social and ethnic identities, this chapter unpacks the three-fold barriers experienced by women belonging to minorities groups – first, as minority group, second as women and third as minority women. Lack of awareness, perceiving their “present state” as destiny, social and local norms and patriarchal way of thinking force these women to live with identity of secondary citizens.
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