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  2. Women in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Human rights in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    In Bangladesh, women are discriminately targeted: according to one study, from 1999 to 2009, 68% of acid attack survivors were women/girls. [57] In 2010, a law against domestic violence was introduced, which defines causing "economic loss" as an act of domestic violence and recognises the right to live in the marital home.

  4. Feminism in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Gender inequality in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Begum Rokeya - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Category:Women's rights in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Bangladeshi women's rights activists‎ (21 P) Pages in category "Women's rights in Bangladesh" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

  8. Sara Hossain - Wikipedia

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    Sara Hossain is a Bangladeshi lawyer. She is a barrister in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. She is the honorary executive director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), a major legal aid provider. She has been at the forefront of advocating for women's rights in Bangladeshi courts and played a key role in drafting legal ...

  9. Women in the Bangladesh Army - Wikipedia

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    Overview Female soldiers of Bangladesh Army in parade, 16 December 2016, the Victory Day of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army was created in 1971 in the Bangladesh Liberation War, and one Bengali female officer from the Pakistan Army's Medical Corps participated in the war, she was Captain Sitara Begum, who was awarded the Bir Protik medal; she was commissioned into the Pakistan Army Medical Corps ...