Girls' Experience of Gender Discrimination in the Household uses 4 items from the CARE Tipping Point Bangladesh baseline survey. It captures the comparative treatment by parents between the adolescent daughter and son among girls with a brother 1 or 2 years older or younger.
Geographies Tested: Bangladesh
Populations Included: Female
Age Range: Adolescents
1. Your parents pay attention to your problems as much as they pay attention to your brother's problems
2. Your parents listen to your opinion as much as they listen to a brother's opinion
3. Your parents treat you equally to your brothers in terms of how much work you have to do for the family (total time for household labor, field work, etc)
4. Your parents consider your study as important as your brother's
Response Options:
Disagree
Agree
The total score ranged from 0 to 4.
Parvin, K., Nunna, T. T., Mamun, M. A., Talukder, A., Antu, J. F., Siddique, A. A., Kalra, S., Laterra, A., Sprinkel, A., Stefanik, L., & Naved, R. T. (2019). Tipping Point project: Report of the baseline study findings from Bangladesh. https://care.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Baseline-report_TP-_FINAL_March-30.pdf
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