Bangladesh is terribly in hot water as the protest for gender equality is underway. Hundreds are currently experiencing the lashes of the patriarchal system of male dominance over women.
What the country is undergoing is a long-battle with a noble goal that if ever it will be pushed to the limits, it will eventually result to women empowerment. Dhaka may seemingly be bloody as riots begin to curtail any movement to give women equal rights as men, but the members of the radical Islamic Constitution Movement should not be violent about their actions to temper down the situation.
Since the Sharia Law is the prevailing custom in Bangladesh, women receiving only half as much as men will be unfair to those who want to breakfree to traditions. We are living in the 21st century and the old ways of women being treated as second-class citizens should be abolished. The reality of too much female oppression in the region are still being denied by the radical group and consider violence as a normal way of living in Dhaka.
The Bangladeshi women treading their way to gender equality will open doors to the progress of the country. It is only proper that the women in the region be respected and be given importance by its men. After all, the women in Dhaka are human beings who should be fairly treated and protected from abuses.
Via: euronews
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When can the Bangladeshi government accept that women should have equal rights like men? Is it not bothered of violence and riots being staged in the streets? These women who have long been abused and violated are stepping up for equal rights. Their battle cry for equality will continue to achieve what they deserve.
Women are exploited everywhere and it has been proven by the UN report which confirmed that bias against woman exists everywhere in every society even the developed ones that boast of being equal. The patriarchal system of society is hugely responsible for this. It is completely not understandable on my part that why is the male chauvinism so deep rooted and so widespread that it just cannot be changed and even the most educated of men are found exploiting woman. On the other hand I am also forced to think that somewhere even the women are to be blamed for putting up with such treatment but then again what is their fault for the history speaks that whenever a woman has protested against the male dominance they have been trampled upon by the higher authorities who are again male. This is pathetic I would opine taking the risk of sounding like a feminist, which I’m not but this irks me!
The situation in Bangladesh is not different from other Asian countries where gender equality is the reality. It is unfortunate the with two women heading the two major political parties of the country the common women still suffer in Bangladesh.
Gender inequality is a global reality, though the disparity is felt more heavily in so-called patriarchal societies. But no one nook or cranny in this world is spared from it. Abuse of women is a universal woe.
The clearer demarcation line is between who brings it out into the open and who keeps it under wraps.