Mohammad Amzad Hossain|Clem Tisdell
Closing the gender gap in Bangladesh: inequality in education, employment and earnings
University of Chittagong|University of Queensland
purpose provide assess trends status women bangladesh terms key macro level indicators namely womens labour force participation educational attainments earnings visvis men designmethodologyapproach trends womens workforce participation educational attainments earnings compared men evaluated basis descriptive statistics correlation regression techniques used examine relationship womens education workforce participation predict equalisation femalemale educational attainment findings study finds evidence growing commercialisation womens work bangladesh although women workforce selfemployed employed lowskill jobs participation high skill entrepreneurial jobs well policymaking bodies rise gender wage differentials considerably reduced many industries general women tend paid less men remarkable improvements womens educational attainments female education found positively correlated workforce participation overall findings indicate improvement womens status bangladesh research limitationsimplications suggested relationship womens education employment needs investigated using rigorous econometric techniques order distinguish productivityenhancing effects education determinants increased female employment fempl practical implications research useful reference international domestic policymakers well members academia future researchers issue originalityvalue study represents first kind bangladesh context provides valuable information independent assessment womens status bangladesh national level