Speakers at a day-long workshop here Sunday called for making the womenfolk politically empowered in the greater interest of enhancing their self-confidence, which would ultimately contribute to the efforts for further progress and prosperity in the country.
They said there is no alternative to making the women self- dependent to carry forward the nation’s hopes and [...]

Women have to be brought into the mainstream of national development process through economic and political empowerment in order to accelerate poverty alleviation in the country.
At a roundtable in the city yesterday, women leaders and politicians said only strong political will can succeed in making women’s empowerment a reality by eliminating all kinds of violence [...]

Mongolia has appointed Nasreen Fatema Awal as its Honorary Consul for Bangladesh, a Foreign Ministry official said, reports bdnews24.com.

Nasreen Fatema Awal is president of Women Entrepreneurs’ Association of Bangladesh (WEAB) and the only woman CIP (Commercially Important Person) in the country.

Emergency-ruled Bangladesh has raised a new female police intelligence unit as criminal activities by women were on the rise in the country, officials and reports said here on Saturday.
The Daily Star newspaper said the authorities formed Special Women Police Contingent (SWPC) recently with a view to curb sex trade including forced prostitution, drug peddling, 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 [...]

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 [...]