Financial Inclusion For Empowering Women In Bangladesh

The importance of improving financial inclusion for women receives increasing attention. Despite significant advances in financial inclusion for both men and women between 2011 and 2014, women still lag behind in access and usage of financial products and services. Financial inclusion empowers individuals and families, especially women and the poor, and well-functioning financial systems enrich whole country. While a plethora of literature exists in connection between the financial inclusion and women empowerment most of those are cross country studies and findings are mixed. And there is relative dearth of studies examining the nexus of financial inclusion and women empowerment of developing economy, particularly Bangladesh. This book attempted to fill this gap and in order to achieve the objectives, a survey was conducted on 30 rural women living in Gopalpur village of Netrakona district of Bangladesh during 22-23 August, 2017. The study revealed that financial inclusion increased women¿s income, purchasing power, living standard and position in the family.