TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to look at Grameen Bank (GB) Sixteen Decisions campaigns and its implications to feminism; and to examine the degree to which women borrowers of the Grameen Bank are empowered to participate in familial decision‐making around dowry and teenage marriage and to develop their public spaces in the community. Moreover, the paper critically looks at the GB women borrowers' development through the Sixteen Decisions.Design/methodology/approach– The study uses multiple research methods. It reviews and analyzes GB Sixteen Decision texts and feminist literature, uses survey method to collect data from Grameen Bank micro borrowers in 2011 and uses secondary data.Findings– The survey finds information on the GB members and GB family members elected in the Union Parishad Elections in 1997 and in 2003, a testimony that GB women borrowers' local counsel participation trend is increasing. This study still finds the gender equality issues exist in the GB Sixteen Decisions texts and the Sixteen Decisions campaign strategies for women borrowers' empowerment.Originality/value– This critical analysis of GB Sixteen Decisions is very important to empower GB women borrowers because the GB Sixteen Decisions texts and the Sixteen Decisions campaigns could be made more effective in addressing women's issues like dowry‐less marriage, teenage marriage and gender equality rights in the family and community space if Grameen Bank could revise the Sixteen Decisions texts and support borrowers in their anti‐dowry and anti‐teen age marriage campaign in Bangladesh.
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
SN  - 0828-8666
DO  - 10.1108/08288661211277506
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/08288661211277506
AU  - Abdur Rouf Kazi
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - A feminist interpretation of Grameen Bank Sixteen Decisions campaign
T2  - Humanomics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 285
EP  - 296
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -