Perspectives of Bangladeshi Women about Post-Secondary Education

ISBN-13: 9783843391177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str.

Yamun Nahar

Opis

A large number of studies both qualitative and quantitative tried to explore barriers to womens education in developing countries. Very few studies explored the reasons for womens low participation particularly in post-secondary education. No research has been conducted exploring womens perceptions about the reasons for womens law participation in post-secondary education in Bangladesh. Using a qualitative methodology and the conceptual framework of open-system theory this study explored womens own perspectives about how multifaceted social subsystems in Bangladesh function to support and to inhibit womens participation in post-secondary education. Study revealed that the barriers women encounter in perusing post-secondary education are vast and complex. Women face barriers from multi-level social systems such as family, financial, educational, socio-cultural, political, and governmental subsystems. Within these subsystems various factors exists that hamper womens post- secondary education in Bangladesh. The result showed that since the barriers are multifaceted, positive collaboration of social subsystems in Bangladesh can reduce the difficulties.

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O autorze

Yamun Nahar, born in Bangladesh and naturalized Canadian. She earned her B.A. (Honours) and M. A. degrees from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Recently (2008) graduated with a Master's degree in Education from Queen's University, Canada. Yamun Nahar was a teacher in women's college in Bangladesh and now working with a women's organization, Canada.