Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Monday said that to eliminate discrimination against women, women鈥檚 work must be recognised and women鈥檚 family and social status must be ensured.
Laws are needed to protect men and women, but women are being discriminated against in some places by this law. To eliminate discrimination against women, women鈥檚 work must be recognised and women鈥檚 family and social status must be ensured, they said at the seminar titled Women鈥檚 Quality of Life and Economic Emancipation.
The Gono Bishwabidyalay Career Development Club organised the seminar on the occasion of International Women鈥檚 Day at the auditorium of the Academic Building of the university at Savar in Dhaka, said a press release.
Taslima Akhter, a member of the National Labour Reform Commission, and Rawshan Ara, a member of Nari Paksha, a voluntary organisation working for women鈥檚 development, were present as discussants at the seminar, which was chaired by president of the Career Development Club, Rubaiyat Toha.
Taslima Akhter said that there is a lack of recognition of women鈥檚 work. 鈥楢lthough women contributed equally to men in the Liberation War, women have been identified as rape victims.鈥�
She believes that a radical change in the perspective of society is needed for this.
Rawshan Ara said that many changes had taken place in women鈥檚 lives as a result of the women鈥檚 movement. 鈥楬owever, gender inequality still exists here. The state has still failed to provide security to women.鈥�
鈥楾herefore, the situation must be changed through the combined efforts of the family, society and the state,鈥� she added. 聽