Barriers that Women Face to Participate in Politics in Bangladesh

The research has been conducted in order to find out barriers that faces women to participate in politics in Bangladesh. The data has been collected from Khulna city through a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was incorporated both open ended and closed ended questions. In this study a convenient sampling technique have been used. Data was collected from 65 respondents who live in Khulna city and Micro soft Excel has been used to analysis the data. The result of the research has been presented in systematic manner. The findings have been discussed descriptively. The research found that Ideological and Psychological factors (Politics is not good work, It is not for woman) has strongly influenced women not to participate in politics in Bangladesh. The study shows Limited access to decision making, Financial problem (poverty and unemployment problem), Lack of political party support(Insufficient representative in political party, masculine nature of politics), Religion factor, Security problem are also strong barrier for woman to participate in politics in Bangladesh.This findings help the authority to be alert and to remove this barriers. Results of research are limited to the Bangladesh only. Future researchers can expand the scope of the research.

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