Call for better socio-economic status of rural women in Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent

   10 March, 2017 : Speakers and activists called for raising the socio-economic status of rural women in seminars held in Comilla and Noakhali districts to observe the International Women’s Day, marked on March 8.

   Social activist Zahida Aktar lamented that women in rural areas faced a lot of problems, including unavailability of healthcare and proper nutrition. She was speaking at a day-long seminar organised by Nari Mancha in the Comilla Press Club.

   Nari Mancha director Anwara Rahman said that charity began from home and so did the fulfilment of women’s rights.

   She urged men to fulfil their duties and take care of their women by protecting their rights inside houses so that their rights can be protected in the society too. Another speaker Anika Chowdhury said that democracy could not prevail in a society which did not give its women their due rights.

   She demanded abolition of the feudal system and called upon the government to provide justice to women.

   Advocate Ahmed Noor said that in rural societies, mostly women were the breadwinners of the family but were deprived of education and rights.

   He said that the government should launch programmes for girls’ education.