Educated but Unemployed: Assessing the Factors of Unemployment Experienced by Graduated Women in Bangladesh

The majority of women's sectors in Bangladesh are developing rapidly such as women's education.In contrast, women's employment rate especially graduated women's employment rate is not increasing as well as women's education, which does not correspond to the current literature that assume education enhances the women's employment rate.Hence, the main research question was, what factors are responsible for graduated women in Bangladesh not getting jobs as graduated men do?The study aims to identify factors of graduated women's unemployment.The study followed the modified World Bank framework.This is qualitative study.Semi-structure interviews and KII were used to collect data from graduated women.The results have been discussed thematically.Therefore, this study identifies that not only education can increase women's employment rate but also local factors play an important role in increasing the graduated women's employment rate.These local factors are new knowledge and will be useful literature.