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.
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 Empowerment: Experiences from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan” organized by BRAC Development Institute (BDI) of BRAC University.
The book is an updated collection of articles from 11 authors from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan which emerged from the papers presented at a workshop of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme of BDI, held in 2006.
Taharunnesa Abdullah, governing board member, BRAC launched the book while Hammeda Hossain, founder, Ain-O-Shalish Kendra, Binayak Sen, research director, Bangla desh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Ainoon Nahar,
professor, Department of Anthropology, Jahangir nagar University, Syed Hashemi, director, BDI ‘among others’ spoke on the occasion.
The Pathways of Women’s Empowerment research Programme of BDI is an international research programme consortium made up of activists and academicians, which explore and seek to bring about positive changes in women’s everyday lives.
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