@article{oai:bunkyo.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001193,
 author = {藤田, 雅子},
 journal = {人間科学研究, Bulletin of Human Science},
 month = {1991-12-01, 2011-11-22},
 note = {Bangladesh is one of Least among Less Developed Contries classified by the United Nations where administrative and political activities do not always  reach all the people, and where GNP per papita is less than one hundredth of Japan.
The purpose of this report about Bangladesh is to study the activities by women. Only four out of five can survive until age of five. Teen age mothers are not rare. If they have a chance of receiving primary education and can read and write, there will be a hope that they will be able to protect their own health as well as next generation from death.
Women's activities are limited by the religious and traditional norm called "purdah". The secondary enrolment ratic for girls is 11%, and the adult literacy rate for female is 19%, both less than a half of men. There are few opportumities for women to participate in economic activities. If the hushband dies or if she is divorced, it is not easy thing to bring up children by her own.
Backed by the United Nations organizations and international assistance, the Government and non-governmental organizations are striving to yield some results, despite the existinng "purdah" and the class system.
The Bangladesh Women's Association with its 280 branch offices sets vocational training, Literay education, and health education including family planning as three main arease of their activities. They also work for child care and nutritional supplement. There is a NGO which has been assisting the programme for families of mother and children, and orphans, without receiving any support from Government since 1977, providing a chance of economic self-reliance for mothers, and education and nutrition for children.
In order to prevent too many pregnancies and too many deaths of children as well as population explosion, family planning is one of the callenges the developing countries have to tackle, which will only become possible by the activities of field workers who visit every house in the slum under the blazing sun.
Although over 80% of the population live in the rural area, this country has to supplement chronic calorie deficiency with food assistance from overseas. Rural women have more restrictions than urban women and their agricultural work are not regarded as the participation in econmic activities. It is customary for housewives to eat last in the family, which often lead pregnant women to nutritional deficiency.
Assisted by such foreign countries as Japan, cultivating and income generating farming is now underway and agriculture traing together with literacy education for women also started.
This kind of programme is not usually big enough to cover the whole country. However, the support strategy aiming at women, children and families will certainly bring the country prosperity. This will also help the country to get free from poverty and to protect itself from national disasters.},
 pages = {27--40},
 title = {バングラデシュにおける生活の諸側面と女性の活動},
 volume = {13},
 year = {}
}