Are gender inclusiveness and rural transformation interlinked?The case of Bangladesh

作     者：Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen Mohammad Jahangir Alam Jon Marx Sarmiento Ismat Ara Begum Al Amin Al Abbasi Subrata Saha Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen;Mohammad Jahangir Alam;Jon Marx Sarmiento;Ismat Ara Begum;Al Amin Al Abbasi;Subrata Saha

作者机构：UWA School of Agriculture and EnvironmentThe University of Western AustraliaPerth 6009Australia Department of Agribusiness and MarketingBangladesh Agricultural UniversityMymensingh-2202Bangladesh Department of Agricultural EconomicsBangladesh Agricultural UniversityMymensingh-2202Bangladesh 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Agriculture》 (农业科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第23卷第6期

页      面：2112-2126页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 12[管理学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 02[经济学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 03[法学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 030301[法学-社会学] 

基　　金：supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research 

主　　题：rural transformation Bangladesh gender inclusiveness investments on women 

摘      要：Gender inclusiveness is important in the rural transformation process of Bangladesh as rural women play key roles in both agricultural and non-agricultural *** inclusiveness also leads to gender *** empirically evaluate relationships between rural transformation and gender inclusiveness in *** consider three rural transformation indicators:high-value commodities’share in agricultural output values,non-farm employment’s share in rural labor employment,and non-agricultural GDP’s share in total *** capturing gender inclusiveness include the per capita rural income of males and females,ratio of investments into gender programs,female access to education,access to healthcare,employment participation,land ownership,and asset *** test the effect of the difference in per capita rural income of males and females and the ratio of their incomes and check for the robustness of the gender variables across different model *** 128 district-level observations from 32 districts of Bangladesh across four time periods(2000,2005,2010 and 2016),we use both ordinary least squares and fixed effects panel regression *** find that female land and asset ownership and access to education and healthcare are robust determinants of various stages of rural ***,our results suggest that improving women’s ownership of land and assets and investing in women’s education and healthcare will likely contribute to a more inclusive rural transformation.