Women in Bangladesh

Women’s are always neglected all over the world and Bangladesh is not except one. This country has a very old and well known history. It was a part of Indian sub-continent and from that time gender discrimination has been going on till now. The complete scenario has changed a little bit through the decades but not very remarkable. In this 21st century if we think about a woman’s position, we will see everyday she is dealing with a lot of social problems and obstacles. Being women in Bangladesh is not so easy to survive. Women’s are always tortured by man in all class of the society. The main fact of this issue is most of the people in our country are illiterate and they think that a boy can bear them in their last age. So, they always want boy rather than girl. From the birth time a girl child is starting to face problems. Then in educational level, boys always get the priority, many parents are not interested to send their girls to school. Every year many young woman’s are became the victim of acid and rape. In also many educated family women’s are physically and mentally tortured by man. Dowry is a common factor of wife beating in Bangladesh. Early marriage is a big issue to concern in our country. Many young girls have been getting married in early age and facing problem of early as well as risky pregnancy. Not only are these, in job sector woman facing a lot of problems like- sexual harassment, low salary than a men and other facilities. Indeed, our social system has created this situation. After completing graduation many woman’s can not any job because of their husband and in laws family. The most common thing is gender discrimination is happening in upper class simultaneously in lower class but the way is different. To prevent this problem many organizations are working and they are doing campaign, seminer and other programs. Now a days media are becoming more conscious about this issue. Television channels are showing different programs and newspapers are publishing extra page based on women issue on a regular basis. Except all of this woman have great success in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank is made successful by women and another very successful part is our garment sector in there maximum worker are women. Nevertheless, we can not ignore the woman’s contribution in our life and we all have to respect them.