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The status of women in Bangladesh has been subject to many important changes over the past few centuries. Bangladeshi women have made significant progress since the country's independence in 1971, where women in the region experienced increased political empowerment for women, better job prospects, increased opportunities of education and the ...
Feminism in Bangladesh seeks equal rights of women in Bangladesh through social and political change. Article 28 of Bangladesh constitution states that "Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life". [1] Sculpture of Begum Rokeya at Burdhwan House, Bangla Academy. She was a pioneer of women's liberation ...
Kalpana Chakma. Kalpana Chakma was a human rights activist and feminist from Bangladesh [1] who held the position of Organizing Secretary of the Hill Women's Federation. She and her two brothers were abducted on 12 June 1996 from her home at Lallyaghona village allegedly by the members of the Bangladesh Army. Kalpana Chakma is still missing. [2]
A female soldier of the Bangladesh Army's ordnance corps in Comilla, 2018. Female soldiers of Bangladesh Army in parade, 16 December 2016, the Victory Day of Bangladesh.. In the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, Bengali doctor from the Pakistan Army's medical corps participated, she was Captain Sitara Begum, who was awarded the Bir Protik medal; she was commissioned into the Pakistan Army ...
Chitranibha Chowdhury. Chitranibha Chowdhury (27 November 1913 – 9 November 1999) was a twentieth-century Indian artist, a member of the Bengal School of Art, and one of the first female painters in Bengal. She created over a thousand artworks, including landscapes, still lifes, decorative art, murals, and portraits.
During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, members of the Pakistani military and Razakar paramilitary force raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women and girls in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. [1][2][3][4] Most of the rape victims of the Pakistani Army and its allies were Hindu women. [5] Some of these women died in captivity ...
Gender inequality has been improving a lot in Bangladesh, inequalities in areas such as education and employment remain ongoing problems so women have little political freedom. In 2015, Bangladesh was ranked 139 out of 187 countries on the Human Development Index [ 1] and 47 out 144 countries surveyed on the Gender Inequality Index in 2017 ...
Wasfia Nazreen (Bengali: ওয়াসফিয়া নাজরীন) is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, [1] social worker and writer. [2]Nazreen is the first Bengali and Bangladeshi to scale K2, the world's second highest and most dangerous peak [3] [4] becoming one of the 40 women in history since 1954 to have successfully scaled K2.