“Stay indoors with Purdah, men will make the money”: A qualitative study investigating women’s microfinance participation and mobility practices in Bangladesh
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Purdah norm and its influence on microfinance loans.
This fig illustrates that purdah norms are culturally learned, practiced, and passed down through generations, which subjects women to restrictions on mobility and financial control, while men face the opposite situation. Due to their lack of financial control and mobility, women’s microfinance loans were transferred to men. Men utilize the funds for income generation or consumption. However, loan repayment remains a legal obligation for women to MFIs, which can potentially worsen women’s debt burden if men fail to properly repay the loan installments associated with women’s loans.