1. Gender strategic framework - Bangladesh
Conflicts: State’s approach in relation to gender
The state approach in relation to gender is conflicted by the following points:
1. The effort to bring of women in the stream of development driven by economic and
various national and international compulsion
2. Maintain and retain the structural and strategic gender based dominations under
influence of conventional and patriarchal outlook
3. Pressure of growing conservative reactionary process
4. Maintain patriarchal attitude and mentality of the society
5. Some strategic facilities have positioned men upgrade
6. Limited impact of domestic violence
7. Access to internal and external social and economic resources are not equal
8. Non-domestic violence positioned women in bellow/ lower
9. Women’s position in respect of domestic and non-domestic violence is remarkable
10. Practice and violence accepting the growing repression of women
11. Despite of favorable general laws and policies women cannot goes the beyond of
limited attitudes of patriarchal society or customary provisions.
Limitations/constraints
Unequal application of Law depicts the social, political, economical and cultural disparity which
shows the exact scenario of on going discrimination and torture on women. Discriminatory
domestic laws provide survival inequality all over the country. Further the traditional approach
towards gender issues, strong anti female demand and unequal facilities are the common trends
of discrimination impacted on entire family of the survive woman. Further low level of literacy
among men, women and religious fundamentalists concern the different types of humiliation and
threatening. For this reason the project is to run activity grass root to top level increasing
awareness on gender issues to be aware and increase the demand of amending discriminatory
laws and policy.