Women Construction Workers in Bangladesh
Health, Wellbeing, and Domestic Abuse during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5933774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Marie Clisby (0000-0003-1255-3115, Coventry University, corresponding author), Tanzina Choudhury (0000-0002-9826-2759, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci11020083 |
| OpenAlex | W4213094434 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article draws on in-depth research conducted during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic with a group of 35 women who work as construction labourers in Sylhet, northern Bangladesh. We particularly focus on these women's narratives of economic crisis, domestic abuse, coercive control and intimate relations during the pandemic. Here, we consider the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021 particularly affected this group of women participants as they employed survival strategies to support their families through a time of extreme economic and social crisis. A key issue they raised was the negative impact the pandemic has had on their health and wellbeing, particularly exacerbated by an increase in experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV), more commonly termed domestic abuse or domestic violence in the local context. The violence they faced was not necessarily a new experience for many of these women, but it was intensified by pressures brought to bear on interpersonal relations within their household as a result of lack of access to incomes, rising levels of poverty, and the stresses placed on families trying to survive in a time of extreme socio-economic and health insecurity
Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Development economics · Disease · Domestic violence · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Mental health · Pandemic · Poison control · Political science · Poverty · Psychiatry · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Homelessness and Social Issues · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology
Women’s Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh
Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands
Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions
Gendering Women
The intergenerational transmission of intimate partner violence in Bangladesh
Introduction to Gender, Development and Vawg
Hidden Dramas of Masculinity
Community Economic Status and Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Bangladesh
All Change? Men, Women and Reproductive Work in the Global Economy
Women’s Productive Role and Marital Violence in Bangladesh
Covid-19 and Domestic Violence
Marital Violence
Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence within Marriage in Rural Bangladesh
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
Women, Wages and Intra-household Power Relations in Urban Bangladesh
Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to Covid-19
Work and intimate partner violence
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |