This document provides an outline on the topic of women's empowerment in Bangladesh. It discusses the history of women's status over time from ancient periods through British rule. It outlines the importance of empowerment and obstacles faced by women such as illiteracy, early marriage, domestic violence, and workplace challenges. The document also discusses ways to achieve empowerment through education, health, political participation, and small business opportunities. It profiles some influential women in Bangladeshi history and politics who worked to empower women as well as current statistics on women's participation in the workforce and government. In conclusion, it emphasizes that gender inequality still exists worldwide and greater opportunities are needed for women.

1. Md. Mominur Rashid
ID- 162051043
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Semester: 9th
Batch: 27th
Department of Apparel Manufacturing Management & Technology
Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology

2. “There is no tool for
development more effective
than the empowerment of
women”
Kofi Annan

3. What is Women Empowerment
History
Importance of women Empowerment
Obstacle of Women Empowerment
Ways to Women Empowerment
Who runs for Women Empowerment
Present Condition of Women
Empowerment in Bangladesh
Conclusion
Outline

4. The process of becoming stronger and more confident,
especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.
 Capacity of women to take control of the circumstances.
 Exercise power & achieve their own goals.
 Able to help themselves to maximize quality of their lives.
WOmen empOWerment
empOWerment

5. •Freedom to choose
partners for marriage
•Daughters were not
considered as liability or
unwelcomed guest in the
family
•Widow marriages were
permissible
•Women had
Subjugated status
•Gave the message
that respectable wife
is one who humbles
herself vis-à-vis her
husband
• Did not get the
freedom at any
point of time
in her life
• Not marrying
a girl before
the age of 14
years was.
Statusofwomen
Vedic period
(1500-1000 BC)
Period of Epics
(1000-500 BC)
Age of Manushastra
(500 – 200 BC)
HistOry Of status Of WOmen

6. Statusofwomen
•Purdah system was in
place
•Polygamy, strict laws
for women were
prevalent
Women lived life of
total subjugation &
virtually lost all hopes
of emancipation
Increase in child
marriages, sati, dowry,
social out casting of
widows
Social reform
movements by
Vidyasagar,
Ranade, Jyotiba
Phule, Raja Ram
mohan Roy
Medieval period
(5th to 11th century)
11th to 19th
century
19th century
HistOry Of status Of WOmen

7. WOmen’s rOle in WOrld War i: 1914-1918
As a railway guards
As a munition workers sorting shells

8. As a precision machinery in engineering
As road labor

9. WOmen’s rOle in WOrld War ii: 1939-1945
As a ambulance workers
Women in battle field

10. Land Army, at the controls of a diesel
caterpillar excavator
Depicting work with evacuees

11. Importance of
Women
empoWerment

12. Obstacle Of WOmen empOWerment

13. Work
Odium
Work Place
Environment
Low Wages
Immoral
Eve
Teasing
Raped
Illiteracy
Lack of
Education
Early
Marriage
At Family
Father’s
Family
Husband
Family

14. Ways tO acHieve …….

15. Decision Making Power
Freedom of Movement
Access to Education
Access to Employment
Exposure to Media
Domestic Violence

16. StepS for Women empoWerment

17. aWareneSS

18. rate of educatIon

19. HealtH

20. pOlitical empOWerment and adequate
representatiOn

21. prOper laW and Order enfOrcement

22. invest in a small business OWner

23. statistics Of WOmen in WOrk area

24. WHO runs fOr WOmen empOWerment
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Begum Rokeya

25. presentatiOn cOnditiOn
Of WOmen empOWerment
in bangladesH

26. • The longest serving prime minister in the
history of Bangladesh.
• 26th powerful women on Forbes' in 2018 &
30th in 2017.
• Top 100 Global Thinkers of the present
decade as the famous US-based Foreign
Policy journal came up with a register of
worldwide thinkers.
• A member of the Council of Women
World Leaders, an International network
of current and former women presidents
and prime ministers
Sheikh Hasina

27.  In its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women
in the World, Forbes magazine ranked Zia at
number 14 in 2004, number 29 in 2005,and
number 33 in 2006
 She was the first woman in the country's
history and second in the Muslim majority
countries.

28. • First Bangladeshi and first Bengali to complete
the Seven Summits.
• Adventurers of the Year 2014/2015 by National
Geographic.
• Becoming the only woman to hold the
simultaneous title of National Geographic
Explorer and Adventurer of the Year.
• She was named by Outside as one of 40 women in
the last 40 years who have advanced and
challenged the outdoor world through their
leadership, innovation, and athletic feats, and
by Men's Journal as one of the 25 most
adventurous women of the past 25 years
Wasfia Nazreen

29. Nishat
Mazumder
Shirin
Sharmin
Chaudhury
Became the 1st
Bangladeshi woman
to scale Mount
Everest.
First
woman Speaker of
the Jatiya
Sangsad since April
2013

30. A Bangladeshi famous fashion designer
and former international model.

31. WOmen in pOlitics in bangladesH

32. Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel Theresa May
Prime Minister of the UK
Christine Lagarde
Managing Director of the
International Monetary Fund
Mary Barra
CEO of General Motors
Abigail Johnson
President-CEO of
Fidelity Investments
Melinda Gates
Co-founder of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Susan Wojcicki
CEO of YouTubeExecutive Chairman of
Banco Santander
Ana Patricia
tHe WOrlds 8 mOst pOWerful WOmen

33. at tHe last….
Women represent half the world’s population, and gender
inequality exists in every nation on the planet. Until women are
given the same opportunities that men are, entire societies will be
destined to perform below their true potentials .The greatest need
of the hour is change of social attitude to women.