Higher education and equal participation in economic and political activities are essential for Asian women to get past the class and gender barriers, speakers yesterday said.
They called for vigorous efforts on the part of governments and international organisations to pave the way for women to access the opportunities.
They were speaking at the inaugural of an [...]

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 [...]

Direct allocation for women in the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year should be increased, suggests a ‘gender analysis’.
At a seminar titled “Gender analysis of the proposed budget”, Dhaka University professor Atiur Rahman said that ‘gender responsive budgeting’, or GRB, was an important process for reducing gender gaps in every sphere of life.
“GRB should [...]

Speakers at a dialogue yesterday called on the political parties to nominate more women in the upcoming election to increase women’s participation in parliament.
Although women make up 50 percent of the total population, their participation in the policymaking is very poor, they said, adding that it is not possible to bring about qualitative changes in [...]