Speakers at a seminar stressed the need for empowerment of women in politics and economics for the development of country.

Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is eager to get the Nobel Prize though she did not do anything for the country or women.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised the importance of women’s political empowerment for their real development.

For the first time in the history of country’s judiciary, a woman judge has been appointed to the Supreme Court (SC), along with three new judges.

Bangladesh is historically and traditionally a highly patriarchal society. All the processes, values and institutions that are associated with the construction of the country are gendered. The institutions and values of this gendered state always privilege masculinity. Women in Bangladesh have to fight with gender boundaries that assign them a subordinate position within patriarchal ideology, [...]

Cherie Blair, wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair and a leading human rights activist, yesterday said she was impressed by the efforts of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Bangladesh, which she found has contributed to empowering women who otherwise would have no future.

The process of building digital Bangladesh, national developments and women empowerment could be accelerated through ensuring just rights of the female public representatives at the grassroots, experts said.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that the previous BNP-led government did nothing but amassed fortune for themselves during their term. “When they assumed power in 2001, they stopped all our development projects,” she told a rally after inaugurating the Mahamaya irrigation project at Mirsarai on Wednesday.

Bangladesh, with two women leaders dominating the country’s political scene both as Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, has called for women empowerment and recruitment of women in senior positions of the United Nations.

It was the first woman-to-woman race in Faridpur-2, when Shama Obaid Islam ran for a seat in parliament in the December 2008 national election in Bangladesh. A young woman new to politics, Shama Obaid Islam, 36, of the Bangladeshi National Party (BNP) challenged veteran politician 73-year-old Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury of the opposing major party, the [...]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been placed sixth in a list of the 10 top women leaders of the world prepared by internationally reputed Time magazine. The list was published in the current week’s online edition of the magazine.

It has been seen that the women occupying the reserved seats could only play a subservient role with respect to the wishes of the ruling party. They have become voiceless tools at the hands of the major parties in Parliament. Women’s representation in the Parliament should be a democratic and effective one; as such, the [...]

Women leaders Saturday called for a global movement for freeing detained Myanmar democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “Suu Kyi is not only a political leader, but also a symbol of democracy. National development in Myanmar will not be possible by keeping her in captivity,” they said. The leaders were addressing a press conference on [...]

Final phase of Arlin Developer 31st National Women Chess

Women grassroots leaders have not been able to play their due roles in upazila parishad for over a year as polls to around 1,600 reserve seats for women have not been held.