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Table 2

Categories of respondents

Data Source	Explanation	Themes	Number
Policymakers and officials	Officials in the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, and the Department of Women’s Affairs	The process of policy formulation	5
Lawyers	Lawyers working with family and inheritance issues	Interpretation of Muslim and Hindu laws	5
Women activists	Activists involved in different women’s movements (purposively chosen), particularly those who have been vocal on equal inheritance rights in national and international fora	Feminist interpretation of personal law, NWDP in regard to gender-equal inheritance policy	5
Muslim religious scholars	Interviews with imams and hafiz of reputed mosques in Bangladesh, Islamic voices heard through mass media, and authors of Islamic books	Sharia interpretation of the distribution of inheritance	3
Hindu priests	Hindu clerics working in central temples	Hindu religious interpretation of inheritance rights	3
Academics and researchers	Researchers and academics working with the topic	Exiting policy and regulations interpreting gender-equal inheritance	6
Women representing Hindu and Muslim religion	Purposively chosen with urban middle-class background	Perceptions and attitudes towards inequitable inheritance law	6
			Total 33

Data Source	Explanation	Themes	Number
Policymakers and officials	Officials in the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, and the Department of Women’s Affairs	The process of policy formulation	5
Lawyers	Lawyers working with family and inheritance issues	Interpretation of Muslim and Hindu laws	5
Women activists	Activists involved in different women’s movements (purposively chosen), particularly those who have been vocal on equal inheritance rights in national and international fora	Feminist interpretation of personal law,NWDP in regard to gender-equal inheritance policy	5
Muslim religious scholars	Interviews with imams and hafiz of reputed mosques in Bangladesh, Islamic voices heard through mass media, and authors of Islamic books	Sharia interpretation of the distribution of inheritance	3
Hindu priests	Hindu clerics working in central temples	Hindu religious interpretation of inheritance rights	3
Academics and researchers	Researchers and academics working with the topic	Exiting policy and regulations interpreting gender-equal inheritance	6
Women representing Hindu and Muslim religion	Purposively chosen with urban middle-class background	Perceptions and attitudes towards inequitable inheritance law	6
			Total 33