Empowering Women in Bangladesh: Gender and the Politics of Reserved Seats by Shajeda Aktar

Author:Shajeda Aktar [Aktar, Shajeda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women in Politics, Public Affairs & Administration, Social Science, Political Science, World, Asian, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9781000422368
Google: 9jEzEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 57064443
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

However, since it is essential to reach all the voters, most of the women members (83% from rural and 93% from urban areas) managed somehow to campaign day and night. In the focus group discussion, the women representatives mentioned that reaching all the voters is imperative but going out at night is not socially accepted and women overcame the social restrictions in the following way:

To campaign at night we took family members, supporters and party workers to accompany us for safety and security. Also in most of the cases we canvassed the long distant remote areas during daytime and the neighbourhood, friends and relatives at nights with relatively easier access for us.

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