Latifa Begum looked confident with a seemingly ever-lasting smile on her face when she was frisking well-dressed and beauty-conscious women with an intelligent electronic device at the entrance to a plush beauty salon in the capital.
The invariant smile bears the testimony to the professionalism of the 32-year-old security guard who was abandoned by her husband [...]

WITH the development of knowledge and science, superstition and narrowness is gradually declining. But the honour due to women is still not given.
By virtue of their own brain, women are achieving their position in educational institutions, offices, the legal profession and other work-places. No doubt they achieved a great deal of advancement. It is a [...]

The number of working and floating women is increasing in the city but none of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) public toilets is suitable for them.
In absence of adequate number of public toilets in the city, men can respond to the call of nature in open spaces but women cannot take such liberty.
According to doctors, [...]

At 15 Jolly was preparing for her SSC exams. She never set for the tests. The teenager instead was married off to become a houswife. Although her parents boast of having a rich son-in-law, they have never tried to know whether their daughter is at all happy with a husband double her age.
“I feel ashamed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As recently as 1991, the educational attainment of Bangladeshi women was among the lowest in the world.  Eighty percent were illiterate.  Equipped with few skills and uninformed about health care, family planning, and nutrition, they were trapped in a cycle of dependency.
To ensure that school-age girls, especially those in rural areas, receive an education, the [...]

ICDDR,B focuses on the lives of women in Bangladesh and around the world for a simple reason: gender equality and the wellbeing of families go hand in hand. When women are empowered to live full and productive lives, their families prosper. Working to achieve Millennium Development Goal 3 – promoting gender equality and empowering women [...]

The world- wide trend towards consumerism has created an atmosphere in which advertisements habitually portray women primarily as consumers and target girls and women of all ages inappropriately.
The aim of advertisements is to influence someone to buy a thing. A number of surveys indicate that women are treated as commodities in advertising.
Women are estimated to [...]