Speakers at a views exchange meeting said that female children, especially those from the poor families, were still neglected and deprived of education. The dropout rate at primary and high school level was higher among the female children.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to help the government implement National Women Development Policy for the welfare of women.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally lay the foundation of Asian University for Women (AUW) on its Chittagong campus on April 26.

The annual general meeting and election of Bangladesh Federation of University Women (BFUW) were held at University Women Federation College in Dhanmondi of the city on Saturday, says a press release.

The general strike enforced yesterday by Islamic activists ended through violence in the capital and other cities leaving over 250 people, including 16 policemen, injured and 200 detained.

While addressing a function arranged by the women and children affairs ministry marking the International Women’s Day, 2011, Prime Minister Sk. Hasina reiterated her stand to curb violence on women, punish the perpetrators of crimes on women and establish equal rights of women in the society. But, the portrait of the country people envisioned 39 [...]

Bangladesh’s next challenge Barack Obama has praised Bangladesh for progress on MDG 4 — halving child mortality over the last 10 years — but we must now face another challenge: helping each of these boys and girls grow through their crucial adolescent years to become healthy, productive adults. Unfortunately, Bangladeshi girls do not receive the [...]

We have just taken 20 days to build up a platform, named Bangladesh Women in Technology, BWIT, to unite female IT pioneers of the country. Within 20 days we articulated the concept; found the above mentioned name; got instant buy-in from all women practitioner; brain stormed with peers and created communities; created the Vision and [...]

It was my first day at work training. Sitting in a room as the only Bangladeshi (or of Asian origin), I felt like the fish out of the water among the White English people. The very subject of our discussion was “Bangladeshi Girls”, particularly focusing on young teenage girls growing up in a Bengali dominated [...]

The government of Bangladesh and its people understand the value of an educated population. As such, over the last decade, many projects have been undertakes to educate the people of the nation. Yet, there still is a large gender gap in Bangladesh when it comes to education. Similar to many developing countries, women’s education in [...]

Despite many international agreements affirming their human rights, women are still much more likely than men to be poor and illiterate. They usually have less access than men to medical care, property ownership, credit, training and employment. They are far less likely than men to be politically active and far more likely to be victims [...]

Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in 1880 in the village of Pairaband in the colonial British province of Bengal Presidency, which later became the northern part of Bangladesh.

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New innovative flexible learning centres are helping girls stay in school Dhaka: In Bangladesh, family poverty and poor quality state education forces millions of children out of primary school. Girls in particular lose out as they are often the first to be called on to get a job or help their parents at home. But [...]

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 [...]