Global discourses have advocated women's empowerment as a means to reduce their own's food insecurity, which is also key development challenges in Bangladesh. However, little empirical research has conducted on this issue, especially in the rural area of Bangladesh. Therefore, the present study was conducted to examine the relationship of six domains of women's empowerment with their food security in rural Bangladesh using a partial least square structural equation modelling approach. Our empirical analysis indicates that women's accesses to their legal and familial rights and decision-making roles in households increase their bargaining power over the utilization of resources and to choices of food which significantly and negatively decrease their food insecurity. Moreover, information and communication technologies and infrastructure facilities also negatively and significantly associated with women's food insecurity. However, women's leadership has a negative but not significant effect on their food insecurity, as low self-esteem rural women feel no ease in publicly addressing their inequalities. By understanding family composition from women's perceptions, the results from our research can assist policymakers to develop more suitable strategies to enhance the empowerment status of rural women and reduce their food insecurity.

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妇女赋权及其在孟加拉国农村粮食安全方面的经验

全球话语主张将赋予妇女权力作为减少自身粮食不安全状况的一种手段，这也是孟加拉国面临的主要发展挑战。然而，关于这个问题的实证研究很少，特别是在孟加拉国的农村地区。因此，本研究旨在使用偏最小二乘结构方程建模方法研究孟加拉国农村妇女赋权的六个领域与她们的粮食安全之间的关系。我们的实证分析表明，妇女获得其合法和家庭权利以及在家庭中的决策角色会增加她们在资源利用和食物选择方面的议价能力，从而显着和消极地减少她们的粮食不安全。而且，信息和通信技术以及基础设施也与妇女的粮食不安全有显着的负相关。然而，女性的领导力对她们的粮食不安全有负面但并不显着的影响，因为自尊心低的农村妇女在公开解决她们的不平等问题时感到不自在。通过从妇女的观念中了解家庭构成，我们的研究结果可以帮助政策制定者制定更合适的战略，以提高农村妇女的赋权地位并减少她们的粮食不安全状况。