Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies: Home

Abstract:
Telecommunication particularly Mobile technology is one of the most powerful tools worldwide. Mobile phones play a foremost part in development programs around the world. Mobile technology surpasses geographies, cultures, and socioeconomic status and offers wide-ranging benefits to women and their empowerment. This technology presents us with an incomparable opportunity to improve social and economic development and positive impact on women�s lives. Large sections of women in Bangladesh are living in rural areas. The majority of them are still tradition-bound and are in a disadvantageous position. Because of inequality in women's access to and participation in all communication systems and their lack of sufficient mobility to promote their contribution to society, women are deprived in every aspect of life. Mobility is a very important factor for women's empowerment. The Mobile phone revealed the opportunities and freedom for women to make their own choices, improve their social network, change their attitudes and change their life. In Bangladesh, women�s engrossment in telecommunication technology changes the behavioral aspect of women�s lifestyle and thereby affects the society and economy as a whole. The Mobile telecommunication introduces inordinate advancement and new development of women�s empowerment, which refers to using, exchanging, and producing information and knowledge to advance women�s status and their quality of life.The objective of the study is to identify the impacts of mobile phones on empowering women of Bangladesh. Moreover, examining the role and effects of mobile phones in terms of economic empowerment, social empowerment, political empowerment, and psychological empowerment are analogous objectives of this research.

Keywords: Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Telecommunication, Mobile Phone, Mobility

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