Women’s Contribution to the Development of Bangladesh

Women’s Contribution to the Development of Bangladesh

The statement of Napoleon Bonapart ‘Give me a good mother; I will give you a good nations’ is the best example of women’s contribution in the development of nation country. Except physical strength are not inferior to men in any respect. They constitute around half of the total population of a country. So, they should be provided equal opportunity in all the nations building activities. In Bangladesh women’s participation in nation building activities are very poor. It is not because of their disinterest, but because of the restrictions imposed upon them. In our male dominated society women are not considered to be competent enough for performing activities other than house hold activities. As a member of the family, society or nation their position is far behind the males.

To ensure women’s contribution there are a few prerequisites. The first one of them is to established compulsory female education. Next come gender equity, female empowerment and measures to stop violence against women’s.

In our country women’s are now participating in varieties of job and thus contributing to the national development. More than 90% of garment workers are female. A large number of females are working as labor in constriction of road, bridge, building etc. They are working in the  husking mills, weaving factories and in different government and non government offices and business farms.  Women’s are working as teacher in different educational institutions. They are serving as doctor and engineer. They have proved their capability as pilot, in BDP, Police, and Army. They are doing well in administration and judiciary. Women are working in the glass   root level as social health and family planning workers. But yet their participations are not up to the marks. Moreover, they are victims of injustice in receiving wages in most cases. Sometimes they do not get required co-operation form their male colleagues and boss. These of course hamper their productivity.

Since, women are responsible for rearing their children; they should be knowledge about the appropriate measures of health, hygienic and feeding requirements of the babies. Otherwise proper development of our babies will be hampered. As a result our future generation will be less productive. So, each and every woman’s should be educated on this issue.

From the past till now women are contributing to the national development. But appropriate measures should be taken to ensure their best contribution.