Water Development Projects and Marital Violence: Experiences From Rural Bangladesh
(2012) In Health Care for Women International 33(3). p.200-216- Abstract
- In this study, we explored the implications of a groundwater development project on women's workload and their experience of marital violence in a Bangladesh village. We believe that the project facilitated irrigation water but also that it resulted in seasonal domestic water shortages. Men used deep motorized pumps for irrigation, and women used shallow handpumps for domestic purposes. Many handpumps dried out, so women had to walk to distant wells. This increased their workload and challenged their possibilities of fulfilling household obligations, thereby increasing the risk of normative marital male violence against women as a punishment for their failure.
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- author
- Karim, K. M. Rabiul ; Emmelin, Maria LU ; Resurreccion, Bernadette P. and Wamala, Sarah
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Health Care for Women International
- volume
- 33
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 200 - 216
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- wos:000301985800002
- scopus:84857329324
- pmid:22325022
- ISSN
- 1096-4665
- DOI
- 10.1080/07399332.2011.603861
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- d9ed1823-19d0-4ef1-9d7e-b7da3b249674 (old id 2587316)
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