چکیده:
As a signatory of different international instruments approbating women’s empowerment, Bangladesh is committed to playing a lead role especially in the harmonious field of gender-sensitive employment for its citizens. Many laws and regulations have been made to combat the ideas and practices of depriving women of their rights. But the provisions regarding the rights of women in these instruments have failed to show proper success, mainly due to a deficient societal approach, including values of the society and the mind setup of its inhabitants, especially the males who dominate the country. Legal lacuna, religious misconceptions and misinterpretations, and patriarchal interpretation of law reinforce the mindset of the society to be more problematic. This paper depicts the framework of the empowerment of women, comments on the legal, social and religious status of women in Bangladesh, identifies key challenges for empowering women and suggests some recommendations to overcome thereof.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Dilemma and Intricacies of Law, Society and Religion towards the Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh Mahmudul Hasan1* Abdul Alim2 Abstract: As a signatory of different international instruments approbating women’s empowerment, Bangladesh is committed to playing a lead role especially in the harmonious field of gender-sensitive employment for its citizens.
Equality between men and women exists when both International Journal of Women’s Research Vol. 3 , No. 2 , Autumn & Winter 2014-15 sexes are able to share equally in the distribution of power and influence; have equal opportunities for financial independence through work or through setting up businesses; enjoy equal access to education and the opportunity to develop personal ambitions (UNFPA, n.
The Government of Bangladesh is committed to attaining the objectives of different international legal instruments for empowering women but still there remain a lot of elements in law, and social and religious practices, which are contributing the non-implementation of government’s commitment towards the empowerment of women.
The Bangladesh Constitution upholds the principle of equality before law (Article 27), non-discrimination (Article 28), equal rights for men and women in all spheres of public life [Article 28(2)], participation of International Journal of Women’s Research Vol. 3 , No. 2 , Autumn & Winter 2014-15 women in all spheres of public life (Article 10), and making special provision in favor of women and children or for the advancement of any backward section of citizens [Article 28(4)]."