Author: Lovely Yesmin
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-15-14
Year: 2015
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2015
Examination Committee: Philippe Doneys (Chairperson); Kyoko Kusakabe, Clemens Grunbuhel (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Women employmen t opportunity in the Readymade Garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh provided signifi cant economic benefits and made them empowered also. In contrast, many workers become unable to make proper uses of these benefits due to Domestic Violence (DV) in their fami ly life. The present study makes an effort to explore the factors contributing to make DV of women garment workers and the impacts of DV of the WGWs career and work life of Dhaka city of Bangladesh. Various factors are associated with this domestic viole nce against women workers ’ life. At a time, how they cope with this problem and this study tried to discover the present situation of the workers in the study area . This study may try to uphold the overall scenarios of the DV condition of WGWs of Banglades h. The study presents findings based on collected qualitative data regarding DV of women garment workers due to their job. It is mainly based on in – depth interview of 25 women workers who are involved in work in the Mirpur S ub – district area of Dhaka metrop olitan area and they experienced domestic violence in their family life. The sample size was selected purposively from f i v e different factories of the study area. The key informants provided significant information to the researcher to identify the violent wo men workers from the respective factories. The study revealed that m any of the women garment workers are suffering from DV in their life. They suffer from physical assault, forced sex, psychological pressure, economic crisis etc. They do not possess the r ight to take decision in their family rather their partners’ extra – marital relationships often become the cause of DV problem. They are forced by their partner to take baby and their caring also. They remain busy from morning for their work and their partn ers do not take this positively. They are earn and contribute
Scholarship Donor(s): Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship Scholarship
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the d egree of Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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