Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/05/2015
15:00 - 16:00
Location
ICCCAD Conference Room
Categories
This week’s seminar will take place at 3 pm on Thursday, May 28 at the ICCCAD Baridhara Office. Dr. Nazneen Islam Khan will be presenting in a seminar titled ‘‘Gender and Local Governance: Experiences of Women Representatives in Bangladesh’
This talk will be based on part of the speaker’s Ph.D thesis. The study on “Gender and Local Governance: Experiences of Women Representatives in Bangladesh” was undertake
n to examine political empowerment of the women representatives at grassroot level in Local Government. Multifarious factors including socio-economical back ground, lack of educational background and lack of political participation of women in the grassroots level (Union Parishad) are said to be responsible for the gender inequity in Bangladesh.
The aim of the research was to study the implications of the use of reserved seats in local government of Bangladesh in terms of gender and women’s political empowerment. In course of the study few hypotheses have been tested. First of all, that the political participation of women in local level politics is conspicuously meager in Bangladesh mainly due to their economic dependence on male and their low level of education and socio economic
About the speaker:
Dr. Nazneen Islam Khan is an independent researcher. University of Dhaka had been conferred on “Doctor of Philosophy” degree to Ms. Nazneen Islam Khan for her research work, title: “Gender and Local Governance: Experiences of Women Representatives in Bangladesh.” under Social Science Faculty. After her Masters of Social Sciences in Political Science, Dr. Khan had received Masters of Philosophy (M. Phil) in 2007 under Social Science Faculty from the University of Dhaka. The thesis title was: “Direct Participation of Women in local level Elections: A review on City Corporation Elections.”
Dr. Khan has been involved in various social and health issues. She was a Co- Investigator of the project, titled:“Baseline Survey for Child Labour Project in Cox’s Bazar” organized by Health & Education for the Less-privileged People (HELP) .Another research work titled:“A Pilot Study on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of the people related to air, water and soil in Araihazar Upazila ,a peri urban area in Rural Bangladesh” she worked over there as a Co Principal Investigator, organized by Committee of Action for Research, Extension and Service (CARES). Her one research work published as an Article, Title: “Strengthening Women’s Participation in Local government in Bangladesh” from Asia Pacific Research Center, Kobe Gakuin University, Japan, March 2007.
Dr. Khan attended many workshop/seminar(s) at home and abroad. Dr. Khan is the Life member of Bangladesh Political Science Association (BPSA).She has been at her service at IUB since 2006 September at the Admission and Financial Aid Office. She had joined as a teacher at Bangla Summer Institute organized by American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and hosted by IUB.
