Gender discrimination means gender inequality or gender disparity
or gender difference. It is difference between male and female in respect
of enjoying human rights. It is severe in Bangladesh which starts at birth.
Female child, girls, women and destitute old women are the worst sufferers. In
most of the illiterate and impoverished families, gender discrimination is
acute. Boys and girls are not treated equally in our country. It is thought
that physically and mentally women are not fit for many jobs.
Many parents want to have male children so that they can
supplement their family income and help with the domestic work when the parents
will grow older. In the existing socio-economic conditions, male children are
best suited to this purpose. So,parents consider the female child a burden to
them.
As a result, gender disparity in our country exists. I do not
notice the existence of disparity in my family, because I belong to an educated
family. Education can eliminate the disparity. But in the present scenario
gender disparity is noticeable in most of the illiterate and poor families.
Women due to gender disparity are lagging behind. The society is deprived of
the service of the half of its population. Gender disparity is a barrier to
socio-economic development of our country. Elimination of illiteracy, poverty
and superstition will help do away with gender disparity of our country.
Awareness of the mass people is a must to solve this problem.
Rural
Development
Rural development means the development of the villages and the
improvement of the wretched lot of the rural people.Bangladesh is basically a
rural country and more than 80% of her people live in the villages. So the
development of Bangladesh depends on the development of the villages. For
sustainable rural development we need to take specific programs in the spheres
of infrastructure development, education, health, agriculture etc. We are
fortunate that all the
governments of Bangladesh
have the importance of rural development and have taken various programs for
this purpose. Compulsory primary education and mass education programs,
establishment of health centres and hospitals at upazilla and union levels,
green umbrella program, ideal villages, cluster villages, food for work
programs, distribution of VGF cards, allowance for the elderly people have been
basically aimed at rural development.
Rural development has got priority in Bangladesh. All activities
taken in this regard should be done in a coordinated way and progress should be
monitored. The empowerment of rural people and involving them in various
government and non-government activities should be ensured. Women and rural
youth should be given priority. People’s participation generated through drive
of leadership and gainful income generating activities will help significantly
in rural development in Bangladesh.
The role of women in national
development cannot be exaggerated. In fact, no development of the country is at
all possible if one half of its population is kept out of the way. So scopes
should be created so that our women can play their part in the process of
national development activities.
In the modern world
the women have proved that they are equal to their counter-parts in all
respects. They are roll is changing day by day. They are now taking part in all
kinds of out of home-work, official and none official, government and non-government
self-employment, enterprises and business and commerce. Some women are in
politics and parliament as well as in diplomatic services. Our women are
rendering highly laudable service in nursing and teaching professions. A large
number of our women are advocates, doctors, engineers and journalists. In fact.
In every sector of out of homework, the roll of our women is highly appreciated.
Once upon a time,
women were look down upon. It was thought that women were born to look after
children, for cooking food and for doing household work. Women were not allowed
to go to schools and colleges. But with the passage of kind peoples’ attitude
have also changed. They are now able to realized that women can also take part
in development work. They have prove their ability. Sometimes they do better
and it is seeing that they are more sincere than men. They have the ability to
contribute must to national development. In our country ( Bangladesh) both the
prime minister and the leader of the opposition party were women and thousands
of women are ingest in many important official jobs. They are working in all
sectors of life with efficiency.
Women should be
encouraged and given liberty so that they can take part in national development
activities
Nation
Building
Women are now a days as important a as men in society. They
constitute nearly half of our total population. There can be no denying the
fact that they too possess equal rights and duties as men do. They have noble
missions to fulfill as men. If they get opportunity their genius, talents and
capacities will gloom fully. No nation can make real progress keeping half of
its population out of year.
The progress of the nation is not at all possible without the
participation of women in development efforts. Though belated, women are now
participating in the development work of our country. They are taking part in
different occupations. Garments are the most contributing industries in the
development of our country. And 90% of the garment works are women. Inspite of
many problems they are working in the garments. Women work in many poultry
farms.
A large number of our women work as construction workers. Women
are taking education and working in different offices nowadays. We have some
women social workers too. They are contributing to the social development of
our country. A number of teachers, bankers, lawyers are women. Thus a large
number of women are contributing to the development of our country. Still I
think the participation of women is not up to the mark.
More women should participate as they are the half of our
population. Education is necessary for them, otherwise they will remain
backward. If the country could ensure a better environment for women to work,
they would be able to contribute a lot to the development of the country. Their
families also should encourage them. As a matter of fact, the involvement of
women is a must for nation building.
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