The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) under its Women Entrepreneurs and Export Development (WEED) Standing Committee organised a two-day training on personal computer (PC) and Internet for women entrepreneurs.
The objective of the training was to provide first hand knowledge on PC and Internet to small and micro level women entrepreneurs so that by [...]

Speakers at a dialogue yesterday called on the political parties to nominate more women in the upcoming election to increase women’s participation in parliament.
Although women make up 50 percent of the total population, their participation in the policymaking is very poor, they said, adding that it is not possible to bring about qualitative changes in [...]

A training camp for the women’s kabaddi team began at the Dhanmondi Women’s Sports Complex Gymnasium yesterday, ahead of the upcoming 3rd Asian Women’s Kabaddi Championship in India.
The monthlong camp will host fifteen players from different district sports associations.
National Sports Council director (sports) Haiyul Qayyum inaugurated the training camp as chief guest. Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation [...]

The country’s local sanitary napkin industry has grown fast in the past 15 years, as consumers are increasingly getting locally made products at competitive prices.
Industry experts estimate the existing market size of the product at around Tk 25 crore, with around 20 local brands available in the market now.
The local brands [...]

The Baftas are having a bit of an Oscar moment. Thanks to the will they/won’t they aspect of this year’s Academy Awards, all eyes are on the British equivalent, which take place tomorrow night.
The amount of preparation that goes into these award ceremonies is staggering – and Britishness, it seems, is no guarantee of restraint. [...]

Agitated students of Barisal Government Women’s College hostel staged demonstration and ransacked its dining room early Friday, protesting 30 per cent increase in daily meal charges.
Students of Rowshan Jahan Hostel alleged that hostel
superintendent Bashirul Huq Thursday evening served a notice raising daily meal charges to Tk 40 per head from Tk 30 with effect from [...]

Does being a consumer these days really have to be so complicated? Even fake tanning’s becoming an issue, although not so much of an ethics one, as an Essex one. Actually, that joke doesn’t really work any more now that the Essex aesthetic has gone national. But that’s the point. Fake tans started, as fashions [...]

Adolescent and youth of Bangladesh can play a vital role in removing the barriers towards establishment of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights.
Dr Halida Hanum Akhter, Director General of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB), said this at the concluding session of its workshop.
The concluding session of the workshop on ‘awareness building in HIV/AIDS and [...]

Investment in women and girls is women’s empowerment
Barrister Harun ur Rashid

Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

Women are grossly discriminated against men in male-dominated society. They are discriminated in every sphere of public and private life by men. In developed countries, women also suffer from unequal wage and there is a “glass-ceiling “in corporate bodies that does not [...]

“This exhibition from Bangladesh showcases works by 10 contemporary women artists. Most of them have earned prominence in the artistic arena of Bangladesh in the past few decades. Some are of recent reputations. Some have careers and oeuvres that have gone through considerable changes during the course of long efforts and experimentation. Women artists have [...]

A lot has been said in the seminars held at different cozy auditoriums in the capital, by different organizations including same person under different banners on national women development policy-2008, carried in electronic and print media, whose impact is awaited. Has it stirred women and men in different strata of society, and mobilized public opinion [...]

Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has opened a Women Entrepreneurs’ Cell under its SME Banking division on its Dhanmondi branch premises to support growing women entrepreneurs’ business needs.
EBL Deputy Managing Director (DMD) and Head of SME Banking Muklesur Rahman inaugurated the cell through a simple ceremony Sunday.
He handed over the first women entrepreneur business loan ‘EBL [...]

  The constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh ensures equal rights for all citizens, irrespective of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Thus women enjoy the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression, association and assembly which form the basis of political activity in a civil society. But in practice women [...]

Stories of Change, a 55-minute documentary by young filmmakers Kamar Ahmad Simon and Sara Afreen that portrays the challenging lives of five successful women, was premiered on March 14 at the Russian Cultural centre.
A panel discussion followed the screening where human rights activist Hameeda Hossain, media personality Samia Zaman and filmmaker Tareque Masud discussed several [...]

Trafficking in human beings, especially women and children, is a heinous crime that violates all tenets of human rights and dignity-that is how the Indian Women and Child Development minister Renuka Chowdhury expressed her reaction while attending a South Asia regional conference in New Delhi recently. The three-day regional conference was organized by the United [...]

Forming a unified front with simple but yet effective tools, an army of women villagers and housewives is taking the lead in the fight against the global tuberculosis epidemic in the South Asian nation of Bangladesh, The New York Times reported on Thursday, April 5.
“I am convinced that this largely contributes to the high cure [...]

A daylong orientation workshop on ‘Women Empowerment’ was held at the training room of Tushbhander Federation Office of Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) in Kaliganj Upazila of Lalmonirhat.
Under the assistances of Bangladesh NGO Foundation, Tushbhander Federation Office of RDRS organised the workshop recently that stressed the need of taking joint efforts to encourage involvement of women [...]

THE contribution of women to the economy is significant but remains beyond the spell of evaluation. It is so, despite the fact that they work at home for sixteen to twenty hours a day. They prepare food for all members of the family, maintain different equipment including those used in kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and drawing [...]

A two-day training programme on ‘PC and Internet for Women Entrepreneurs’ was held at the Knowledge Centre organised by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) under its Women Entrepreneurs and Export Development (WEED) Standing Committee (SIC). The objectives of the programme was to provide first hand knowledge on PC and Internet to small [...]