Socio-Economic Conditions of Tribal Female Workers in Bangladeshi Beauty Parlors

Asian Journal of Business Management 3(2): 136-144, 2011
ISSN: 2041-8752
© Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2011
Received: January 16, 2011 Accepted: February 11, 2011 Published: May 15, 2011
Corresponding Author: Feroz Ahmed, Administration Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh
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Socio-economic Conditions of Tribal Female Workers of the
Beauty Parlors in Bangladesh
1Nargis Akhter, 2Feroz Ahmed and 3Sohrab Hossain
1Department of Business Administration, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2Administration Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh
3Business Administration Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh
Abstract: The study highlights the socio-economic conditions of tribal female workers of the beauty parlors in Bangladesh. The study consists of 240 sample tribal female workers of the different beauty parlors situated in six divisional towns of Bangladesh and judgment sampling technique was used to select this sample. The study reveals that tribal women working at beauty parlor draw competitively higher salary than other tribal people; they live at a comparatively healthy physical environment provided by their owners. Majority of the respondents mentioned that their earnings have improved their economic condition significantly and more than half of them have past work experience of the same job. The tribal female workers of the beauty parlors in
Bangladesh are not only generating income from the beauty parlors they are providing a valuable service to the new consumer society. The main stream society is not yet ready to provide this type of services. So, we should not treat this migrant community as temporary visitors rather we should treat them as indispensable and contributing factor of the social and economic development in Bangladesh. There should be initiative from the government of Bangladesh to inspect health; safety; welfare and other related issues of the beauty parlors in
Bangladesh and take

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