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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 ...
Begum Rokeya. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain [a] ( Bengali: রোকেয়া সাখাওয়াত হোসেন; 9 December 1880 [b] – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, [c] was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's ...
As of September 2019, tertiary education in Bangladesh takes place at 44 government, 101 private and 3 international universities. Students can choose to further their studies in chartered accountancy, engineering, technology, agriculture and medicine at a variety of universities and colleges.
Wasfia Nazreen (Bengali: ওয়াসফিয়া নাজরীন) is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, social worker and writer.. Nazreen is the first Bengali and Bangladeshi to scale K2, the world's second highest and most dangerous peak becoming one of the 40 women in history since 1954 to have successfully scaled K2.
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.
Feminist movements in Bangladesh started long before its independence. During the 19th century the social reform movement, mostly carried out by male social leaders, worked to abolish practices such as infanticide, child marriage, and widow burning. Women activists in Bangladesh organized to claim their rights during the British and Pakistan ...
Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education ( primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. [1] [2] It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education.
Najma Chowdhury. Najma Chowdhury (26 February 1942 – 8 August 2021) was a Bangladeshi academic. She was a pioneer in establishing women studies in Bangladesh. She founded the Women and Gender Studies department of the University of Dhaka in 2000. [1] She was an advisor to the first caretaker government in 1996. [2]