Elisabeth Rottach

Publications (2)0.79 Total impact

• Article: Women's empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh.

  Sidney Ruth Schuler, Farzana Islam, Elisabeth Rottach
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  ABSTRACT: This article explores the changing dimensions of women's empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women's empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed for a 1992 survey. In the article we discuss the types of social, economic, and political change that affect the measurement of women's empowerment; propose and explain a new set of indicators for the rural Bangladesh setting; and discuss implications for measuring women's empowerment in other settings.
  Development in Practice 09/2010; 20(7):840-854.
• Article: Women's Empowerment across Generations in Bangladesh.

  Sidney Ruth Schuler, Elisabeth Rottach
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  ABSTRACT: This study uses qualitative data to examine young women's relationships with their mothers and mothers-in-law to understand how these relationships foster empowerment in the younger generation or fail to do so. The data consist of ethnographic interviews with 20 triads of women-young married women, their mothers and their mothers-in-law. Findings show that the influence of empowerment across generations was greater in the sphere of economic empowerment and education than in relation to marriage and childbearing. The study illustrates how patriarchal institutions resistant to change can limit the effects of women's empowerment on the next generation.
  Journal of Development Studies 03/2010; 46(3):379-396. · 0.79 Impact Factor