Methodology:
Dowry impacts both rural and urban women's employment lives throughout all districts in Bangladesh,
according to the study, which will be conducted in Khulna. I chose one of the districts among them for
this purpose. I'll choose several areas in Khulna where dowry occurs often, and those will be the focus of
my research. I chose Khulna as my study location because numerous natural catastrophes, including as
cyclones, river erosion, and floods, are occurring. Poverty also has an impact on dowry. These are the
reasons why Khulna was chosen as a research location.
The research will take done from October through March. If I do surveys or interviews, it will take six
months.
Because my topic is women's employment after dowry in Khulna, my population will include women or
girls who confront the dowry problem, as well as these women who are involved in employment after
their dowry.
For this research study proposal, I shall employ the qualitative technique. There are several advantages
to using a qualitative technique over a quantitative method. In the qualitative technique, questions may
be changed at any moment, but in the quantitative method, I cannot modify the question pattern. The
qualitative technique will be adaptable. There is no specific inquiry type. A question might be organized
or unstructured, and it can also be open-ended. In qualitative methods, validation data is more
necessary than in quantitative methods. As a result of these considerations, I favor the qualitative
technique. The researcher plays a significant part in this technique, which is another key reason for
adopting it since the researcher may alter his path at any time if the circumstance requires it.
However, there are three sorts of qualitative methods: 1) an interview, 2) a document, and 3) an
observation I shall use the interview approach among these three sorts of qualitative methods. I will
conduct interviews since they will be more insightful and the greatest approach to contact people who
are involved with this study population. Documents include just prior facts and observations, which
takes more time to complete research and cannot provide individual opinions, but interviews may
provide individual perspectives. The interview will be flexible for both the interviewee and the
interviewer since, as previously said, the questions can be organized or non-structured, or they can be
open ended so that the interviewee can express their thoughts on the study issue. The researcher and
those I will interview may change the nature of the questions or the direction of the conversation at any
moment.
First, I choose the persons I will interview for the interview process. It might be the victim, spouses,
parents, the local community, stakeholders, various organizations or NGOs fighting for women's
employment, Bangladesh law officers who are specialists in this area, who can influence the situation
regarding the past and present situations. I'll be interviewing about 40 folks from various groups. The
victims will be ten women, with about five spouses. The number of parents will be approximately 5, the
number of members of the local community will be around 2, and the number of stakeholders will be
around 3. NGOs or women's groups will have around 5 individuals, law officials will have about 5 people,
and experts will have about 5 people. Will any of the members in the group require additional
interviews? I'll pick these folks because they have some knowledge of the subject, have dealt with it, or
have seen what other people have done. As an example, the victim will provide information on the
problems she encounters after dowry and before marriage, as well as what she can and cannot do for
job. Parents can explain why they did it, and organizations can explain what steps they can take to help
women find work once they have paid their dowry. I will do face-to-face interviews or interview the
interviewee through phone, mail, or WhatsApp. After selecting interviewees, I should inform them of
the purpose of the interview, and if they agree to give me an interview, I will make an appointment to
interview those people, and I will meet with them at that time. Before that, I should prepare a
structured or open-ended question pattern based on the research objective and questions. Following
that, I will request permission to record the interviewees' responses. If they allow me to record the
interviews, I will use a mobile phone, a tape recorder, Zoom, Google Meet, and a video camera to
capture the entire interview. If I record everything, I will take notes.
After I have recorded or taken notes on all of the interviews' answers or what they said in response to
each question or randomly talked about the study, I will transcribe it. I can do it manually or using
software.
My next step will be to analyze the data when I have transcribed all of the material from the interviews.
For data analysis, I will carefully analyze each transcribed material to identify any patterns. Because I
questioned all of the interviewees about my study, which was the same for all of them, their
interpretation or thinking may have been comparable. They will not answer every question in the same
way, but there may be certain points where they may be similar. I'll have to look for similar patterns to
form a cluster. After that, I'll group all of the clusters together under a single common topic. This
approach will provide me with a plethora of themes, which will serve as my findings. Following that, I
will organize all of these topics as my results. At that point, I'll have to verify whether or not the
information I obtained from my interviewee is correct. To determine if this information is correct or
incorrect, I will use numerous sources, a process known as triangulation.
After completing all of these tasks, I must interpret my findings. I'll have to evaluate my findings and
compare them to previous data.