Gendered Dimensions of Unpaid Activities: An Empirical Insight into Rural Bangladesh Households

Women in Bangladesh are generally perceived as caregivers, often confined within the households to perform various activities, whereas men providers. These complex gendered roles intersect with multiple factors such household structure, marital status, religion, cultural beliefs, economic shocks, and livelihood opportunities. This study used feminist political ecology framework contextualize analyze time allocated toward unpaid works, culturally accepted female/gendered nuanced power dynamics between women rural of Bangladesh. We survey data collected from Integrated Household Survey 2015 create a linear regression model that helps understand impacts economic, cultural, environmental shocks on total activities by household. Results suggest who experienced climate-change crop losses due disasters non-climatic dowry tend allocate more tasks. In contrast, own their businesses give less provides guidelines for necessary gender-sensitive national policies address United Nation’s goal gender equity sustainable development.