“I won against Pakistan but lost to poverty” said Kakat Heninchita. Few Bangladeshis have heard of this valiant freedom fighter, known to the villagers as Kakon Bibi. Carrying ammunition to the Mukti Bahini in a ‘kolar bhela’ this poor Khashya woman from Shunamganj helped blow up a bridge in 1971. She fought with the Mukti [...]

Findings from a study yesterday revealed that women health workers have been found to be acting as change makers of society at the community level since the sixties of last century. The study conducted over community health programmes of the government, ICDDR,B, BRAC and Gonoswasthya Kendra in Matlab, Savar and Jamalpur said that the recruitment [...]

Violence against women with disabilities should be addressed from the perspective of citizens’ rights along with steps to enhance their mobility and security, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday. They also said that integrating physically challenged women into mainstream of society is crucial to ensure their rights.

Maliha Rahanaz, Ebenezer International School, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka Will this massive craze of torturing women in our society ever come to an end? Why is it that when women’s rights are discussed we always find ways to back out by simply saying, “We’re working on it” or “I think women have been given much more [...]

Al Gore and his wife broke up after 40 years of marriage. The guy who stars in The Bachelor reality show broke up with his fiancé last week after being together for a lifetime by the standards of vacuous celebrities, ie, days. BP boss Tony Hayward parted company with his dividend paycheck. So I was [...]

Citibank, N.A., Bangla-desh in collaboration with Grameen Shikkha has launched a scholarship programme called ‘Citi Scholarship for Young Women’ targeting the female university students of the country. Under the programme, scholarships will be given to 35 female students from six public institutions including Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Tech-nology (BUET), [...]

Women leaders Saturday called for a global movement for freeing detained Myanmar democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “Suu Kyi is not only a political leader, but also a symbol of democracy. National development in Myanmar will not be possible by keeping her in captivity,” they said. The leaders were addressing a press conference on [...]

AB Bank Limited organized a day-long training programme on Entrepreneurship Development for Women Entrepreneurs Wednesday at ABBL Training Academy in the city. The training programme was arranged for SME customers with a focus to increase awareness regarding proper banking activities while applying for SME loans,it is a step forwards involving the vast number of women [...]

There are many women scientists in the world who are responsible for making discoveries and advances in a wide variety of areas — biology, medicine, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, and research. From the dawn of civilization women and men worked together to make the future brighter. Why aren’t there more women in science in Bangladesh? Their [...]

Speakers at a book launching ceremony Thurs­day said that although women’s empowerment is now a top development agenda but surprisingly little work is seen done on how women themselves experience the implementation process as discrimination exists between women classes. They were speaking on the occasion of a launching ceremony of a book titled “Mapping Women’s [...]

Eve teasing has recently been growing like an epidemic throughout the country. The term is presently very common to the younger generations. It means “to excite girls with objectionable questions, annoyance, irritating, ambling limbs and by creating blockade on the way without showing any courtesy.” Eve-teasing actually means nonsensical gestures use of slang language in [...]

Dhaka University (DU) and Asian University for Women (AUW) will share academic activities with each other to promote their research and standard of education. A delegation of teachers of AUW met DU VC AAMS Arefin Siddique Sunday. Dr Georgia Guldan (USA), Dr ANM Moinul Islam (Bangladesh), Dr Yan Gao (China), Dr Tomomi Naka (Japan), Dr Ibrahim [...]