The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka

By N. Kabeer. 2000

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• Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids (2012, background): “Practices and beliefs associated with religion also impact the scope and content of Bangladeshi women’s social and economic activities (Kabeer, 2000).”
• Women ’ s economic empowerment and inclusive growth : labour markets and enterprise development (2012, background): “For some jobs, however, particularly in highly competitive, laborintensive export sectors, the preference was for female labor because they made less trouble (Kabeer, 2000) or because they could be paid less on the grounds that they were secondary earners or merely earning pin money (‘working for li”
• Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring (2003, background): “…based on its competitive advantages under the MFA (Multi Fiber Agreement) and the migration of millions of women and girls to work in these factories in Dhaka (Paul-Majumder and Zohir, 1995; Kabeer, 1997, 1999, 2000; Paul-Majumder and Begum, 2000; Feldman, 2001; Kibria, 2001; Ward et al., 2002).”
• Gender equity and globalization: Macroeconomic policy for developing countries (2006, background): “Further, in economies that are articulated, that is, where export goods are also domestically consumed, higher female wages may stimulate consumption demand, offsetting the decline in export demand.”
• Modeling the effects of trade on women, at work and at home. (2000, background): “Kabeer (2000) provides an interesting example of this in her study of the effects of the clothing industry on two different groups of Bangladeshi women, one working in factories in Dhaka and one involved in home-based work in East London.”
• Neoliberalism as unexceptional: Economic zones and the everyday precariousness of working life in South India (2010, background): “What is the lack of social protections for workers in the informal economy is institutionalized as ‘flexibility’ (Kabeer, 2000) inside the zone.”
• Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh (2001, background): “In conceptualizing the process by which women's access to resources translates into impact, Pahl (1989) had made an analytically important distinction between what she calls ``control,'' the ability to make policy decisions concerning the allocation of resources, ``management'' which relates to deci”