Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Saturday unveiled Women Entrepreneurs’ Directory 2009 and a research-based book and CD on Kasida.
Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad unveiled the directory along with the book and the CD at a ceremony at the DCCI Auditorium in the city.

THE Chittagong based non-governmental organisation PHREB (Promoting Human Rights and Education in Bangladesh) has been running long-term school-based awareness campaigns since their establishment in 2004. The purpose of these campaigns is to educate young people on human rights issues and encourage them to speak out and defend their own human rights. These young people will [...]

The country’s eight export processing zones (EPZs) have enough women labour force, but the authorities there have failed to create entrepreneurs and high level jobs for them.
According to Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA), very few women entrepreneurs have been found in the EPZs situated in Dhaka, Chittagong, Mongla, Ishwardi, Comilla, Narayanganj, Nilphamari and Karnaphuli.
From [...]

The 6th “Dosti-Women Entrepreneurs Trade Expo-2009” (Wetex) will begin on Monday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city to promote and assist the women entrepreneurs.
Pakistan High Commission will organise the six-day exhibition, a high commission release said.
Around 100 women entrepreneurs from around the region mainly from Bangladesh are expected to participate in the exposition.
Dosti-Wetex [...]

Television has become a major tool for showing women in stereotypical roles.  Imagine a day with no newspaper, no television, not one billboard looming over you no matter where you may be. It’s that difficult to get away from the media. Be it the news, your favourite drama serial, a movie with a friend or [...]

Women entrepreneurs of the country have hailed the budget for the fiscal year 2009-10 placed in the parliament Thursday for providing adequate incentives for the development of ‘women friendly business environment’.
Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BWCCI) representative body of the women entrepreneurs in a press release welcomed the government move to allocate 15 [...]

The central bank from now will do CAMEL rating of banks on their lending to women entrepreneurs to allow them to open branches, its chief said. The Bangladesh Bank will also watch the banks to see if their operations conform to the rules, governor Atiur Rahman said at a pre-budge discussion hosted by Bangladesh Women [...]

On November 4, 2008, the United States of America embraced ‘change’ by electing Barrack Obama as the 44th President of America and while I was waiting for the bus in the morning after the election, there were two African American women having a conversation about Obama’s victory. Both had the positive view that his presidency [...]

A year ago, a 43-year-old homemaker from Mumbai started writing about her everyday life, and whatever touched it. Nothing extraordinary about it, except that her ‘diary’ was-online, or was what is popularly known as a blog. She called herself Indian Home Maker (IHM), and her blog, The Life and Times of an Indian Homemaker, because [...]

Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) organised a get-together for the women entrepreneur clients of the bank in the city recently on the occasion of the Bangla New Year 1416. Arranged by the Women Entrepreneur Cell under SME Banking of EBL, the gathering was addressed by Managing Director and CEO of the bank Ali Reza Iftekhar. Later [...]

Move into the countryside in the hills and it’s common to see women washing clothes by narrow streams gushing alongside the roads. The song of trickling water is the continuous magical music of the Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh, which is crisscrossed by thousands of irrigation canals. Locally known as the ‘kuhls’, these canals bring [...]

IT is difficult to accept why the banks and financial institutions do not provide loans carrying low rates of interest to women entrepreneurs who run small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Neither the banks nor the financial institutions are following the policy of the central bank in this regard.
A Tk 500 crore SME fund was created [...]

Micro-credit makes women of Monipuri community self-dependent
Monipuri is the name of an ethnic community and it belongs to a patrilineal society. This community is usually found in many thanas of Moulavibazar district. The main occupation of the members of the community is agriculture, especially vegetable production and weaving. But weaving is totally [...]

Experts urged for creating an effective women friendly atmosphere in the field of trade and commerce through preparing Woman National Business Agenda with proper solution to overall problems of the women entrepreneurs in transacting business.
The call came from a divisional stakeholders consultation workshop arranged by Bangladesh Woman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) at a [...]

Sabina Begum wakes early in the morning and walks instinctively to a tiny room next to her home. She unbolts the factory; double-checks machinery and raw materials and takes a deep breath to begin a new day.
She prepares for the manufacturing process that will include choosing the fabric, matching sewing thread colours, setting designs and [...]