An overview on Gender Equality in Bangladesh with Importance.

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An overview on Gender Equality in
Bangladesh with Importance.

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What is Gender Equality?

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 Gender equality
definition is the state in
which access to rights
or opportunities is
unaffected by gender.
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 It’s not only women
who are affected by
gender inequality;—all
genders are impacted,
including men, trans
and gender-diverse
people.
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 Equality in gender does mean that women and
men will have or need the exact same resources?
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 Equality in gender does not mean that women
and men will have or need the exact same
resources.
 But that women’s, men’s, trans people’s and
gender-diverse people’s rights, responsibilities and
opportunities will not depend on their assigned
gender at birth
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The Constitution of the People’s Republic
of Bangladesh on Gender Equality

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According to article 19: Equality of opportunity
19. (1) The State shall endeavour to ensure equality of opportunity to all
citizens.

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19. (2) The State shall adopt effective measures to remove social and
economic inequality between man and man and to ensure the equitable
distribution of wealth among citizens, and of opportunities in order to
attain a uniform level of economic development throughout the
Republic.

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19. [(3)The State Shall endeavour to ensure equality of opportunity and
participation of women in all spheres of national life.]

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According to article 27: Equality before law
27. All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law.

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According to article 29: Equality of
opportunity in public employment
29. (2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or
place of birth, be ineligible for, or discriminated against in respect of, any
employment or office in the service of the Republic.

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Guidelines from Bangladesh Bank
to Women Empowerment

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 Women in Bangladesh struggles, face barriers in nearly every aspect of
their lives, including access to health services, economic opportunities,
professional participation and access to finance.
 Bangladesh Bank's intend to facilitate female participation, reduce gender
inequality, establishing their basic rights.

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Banks and FIs may take the following CSR initiatives for country-wide
women empowerment:
1. Support to female education through financial assistance/stipend;
2. Skill development programs for unskilled women;
3. Supply of equipment to the trained women for self-employment;
4. Financial support to women for a start-up;
5. Food, shelter and on-hands training to helpless/vulnerable women;
6. Financial assistance/concessional credit to women without collateral;

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Banks and FIs may take the following CSR initiatives for country-wide
women empowerment:
7. Construction of women hostel buildings;
8. Construction of separate wash blocks for female students in school and
college premises;
9. Providing separate transportation facilities for women employees;
10. Women's participation in employment;
11. Assistance to Birangana;
12. Any others deem fit by BB.

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
17 Goals to Transform Our World
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
 Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary
foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
 There has been progress over the last decades, but the world is not on track
to achieve gender equality by 2030.

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SDG Goal 5: Achieve
gender equality and
empower all women
and girls-Target-1
5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and
private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and
female genital mutilation

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SDG Goal 5: Achieve
gender equality and
empower all women
and girls-Target-2
5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision
of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the
promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as
nationally appropriate
5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for
leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

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SDG Goal 5: Achieve
gender equality and
empower all women
and girls-Target-3
5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and
reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of
the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing
Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

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National Women Development Policy 2011

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The Objectives of National Women Development Policy
1. To establish equal rights of men and women in areas of state and
public life in the light of the constitution of Bangladesh.
2. To ensure security and safety of women in all areas of state, social
and family life.
3. To ensure the socio-economic, political, administrative and legal
empowerment;

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4. To establish human rights of women.
5. To ensue full and equal participation of women in the mainstream
socioeconomic development.
6. To bring up women as educated and skilled human resources.
7. To deliver the women from the curse of poverty.
8. To remove existing male-female disparities.

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9. To give appropriate recognition to women's contribution in socio-
economic areas.
10. To eliminate all forms of abuse of women and female children.
11. To eliminate discrimination to women and female children.
12. To establish gender equality in politics, administration, other areas of
activity, socio-economic activity, education, culture, sports and in all
areas of family life.

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13. To innovate and import technology favouring the interest of women and
prohibit anti-women technologies.
14. To ensure taking appropriate steps to ensure sound health and nutrition
of the women.
15. To ensure priority of women in provision for proper shelter and housing;
16. To arrange rehabilitation of the women affected in natural calamities and
armed conflicts.
17. To extend overall assistance to ensure rights of the disabled women
and women belonging to the smaller ethnic groups.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Commitment:
Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
Through her Vision 2021 and 2041 a
momentum has been created for
taking forward Bangladesh to a middle
and high income level respectively.

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The 7th Five Year Plan (2016-
2020) of the Bangladesh
government, considers women’s
engagement in political and
economic activities as a cross-
cutting issue and one of the main
drivers of transformation.

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Present government is committed to
attaining the Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG) of gender equality and
empowering women as well as
implementing the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing
Platform for Action.

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Bangladesh has already
substantially achieved the
MDG3 as it has achieved
gender parity in primary and
secondary education at the
national level, among other
successes of the MDGs

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Important Initiatives of Women
Empowerment in Bangladesh
1. Gender Responsive Budgeting:
All the ministries
adopted gender
responsive
budgeting and are
made accountable
towards spending
their allocation for
economic and social
empowerment of
women.

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2. Political Empowerment of Women

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3. Administrative Empowerment of Women
Presently women are positioning Secretaries, Additional Secretaries, and
many other ranks in the Central Administration.
• A number of High Court and Appellate Division Judges and District
Judges are women.
• A number of Ambassadors are women.
• Women are posted in the Field level Administrative capacities as
Deputy Commissioner & Superintendent of Police and Upazila Nirbahi
Officer.

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4. Economic Empowerment of Women
• Millions of women are contributing a lot in Readymade Garments (RMG) sector.
• Bangladesh Bank is providing collateral free loan for women entrepreneurs.
• Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) disbursed Tk to the women
entrepreneurs.
• Bangladesh Bank allocated funds of the refinancing scheme for women.

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5. Education of Women
• New free education materials distributed among millions of students.
• Increased admission rate at Primary School Level.
• Introduced compulsory Primary Education up to class viii.

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7. Acts and Policies
Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000.
• Legal Aid Services Act, 2000.
• Mobile Court Act, 2009.
• Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2009.
• Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2010.
• Acid Crime Prevention (Amended) Act, 2010.
• Human Trafficking (Deterrence and Suppression) Act, 2012.
• Children Act, 2013.

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