The Consequence of Sexism on Women’s Empowerment and Girls’ Education : An Exploratory Research

Even though women’s empowerment within a household is a strategic gender need, in a sense it is a necessary condition for the long term goal of creating gender parity in every aspect of social, political, and cultural life of the society than being a mere solution to the practical short term challenges of women, and sexism is seen as a fetter against women’s empowerment in different spheres of women life, yet there is a lack of research which explores the link between sexism and women’s empowerment within the family. In this paper, a modified version of the collective household bargaining mathematical model is used and the link between sexism of a husband and household bargaining position of a wife is tested with empirical data. According to our data, the sexism of a husband is observed to generate a lower barraging position for the wife of the family. This is why the regression of sexism should be taken as a strategic gender need which can stimulate women’s empowerment within the family. The sexism of the husband, however, does not have any effect on girls’ educational achievements