| THE IMPACT OF SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISE (SME) OF BRAC ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY AT REMOTE AREAS IN BANGLADESH |
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Md. Abul Hasam1, Dr. Nasrin Akhter2 Abstract Women empowerment is a vital concern in contemporary era. To promote the women emopwement, different institutions and organization takes various initiatives especially in rural Bangladesh.The study tries to know whether the small medium enterprise of well-known BRAC impacts on empowering the rural women in Bangladesh. In this work, women empowerment refers to six dimensions like taking decision and about family matters and its evaluation, participation in economic activities and its evaluation, participation in social activities and its evaluation, participation in political activities and its evaluation, reproduction control and taking health care. The small medium enterprise of BRAC refers to micro financial support to rural women. In this study, quantative method using descriptive research design was applied.Data is collected through interview schedule and the collected data is analysed by SPSS. At first the data are presented as frequency and percentage. Then, multiple linear regression models were applied to measure the impacts of small medium enterprise on women empowerment.The findings shows that the small medium enterprise of BRAC plays the vital impact on the all dimensions of women empowerment at remote areas in Bangladesh. The results may help the policy makers and organizations to take further more initiative to improve the women empowerment in Bangladesh. Keywords:Small Medium Enterprise (SME), BRAC, Women Empowerment, Bangladesh 1 Md. Abul Hasam, Department of Humanities (Sociology), Primeasia University, Bangladesh , E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 2 Dr. Nasrin Akhter ,Department of Humanities( History), Primeasia University, Bangladesh, E-mail:
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