Empowerment of women indicates a process that helps women get the opportunity to join the workforce and contribute to the family income and influence the family and social affairs.
That is women should be empowered to earn and take decisions in the family and society, Majority of women in Bangladesh are confined within four walls. Many reasons work behind this. Patriarchal society, superstitions, and religious dogmas are the top ones. The birth of girls in poor family is most often unwelcoming. The poor parents usually think of not sending her to school. Before attaining physical or maturity, she is married off. In her in-law’s house, she is marginalized, and often tortured to death by her husband and in-laws for dowry. But women are no less important than men.
About half of our total population is women. keeping aloof a full half of its total population, no nation can make real progress. So, women’s empowerment is a developing country like ours. Actually, women’s empowerment is impossible without their economic freedom. For this, female education should be ensured first. Women as well as the whole society have to be conscious of women’s rights. The government along with people from all walks of life should come forward to cooperate wholeheartedly. (online and offline class paragraph)
