of household members seeking off-farm employment, and the increased participation of rural women as both own-account and … changes in rural women’s work over time, the dominant trend in the region over the past several decades has been towards the … feminization of agriculture. The growth in women’s agricultural wage employment has been concentrated in the non-traditional agro …

paper sought to identify the determinants of empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh. The data for our study were collected … from 75 rural women employed in home-based poultry rearing projects in Bangladesh. We conducted factor analysis to identify … implications of the findings of this study for improving the quality of life of rural women in Bangladesh are discussed …