Working Women in Bangladesh

It is noticed with pleasure that nowadays the women of our society are becoming working women. They are no more dependent on men. Their role is changing gradually. They are no more only mothers and home-makers. They have come out of their houses. They are not timid. They are participating in both official and unofficial work. They arc contributing to the national uplift. They are participating in armed forces and trying whole heartedly to serve the nation. They can conduct business. They arc earning money and sharing with man all the family responsibilities. So, their contribution is no more negligible. But the women who arc engaged in service cannot look after their family well. They cannot take care of their children properly. Their children are deprived of mother love and affection. In many families, girls are still confined in household duties. Their parents think that one day the girl will become a housewife in a house, they think that they arc not fit for doing work in an office or somewhere else. They are born to do household chores as cooking washing up feeding babies and managing the household. Here the female domestic workers are treated brutally. Women generally work longer hours than men but they arc getting less money. This kind of partial treatment should be stopped. Whatever may be the circumstances, the women should be encouraged so that they can take part in total development of the family as well as the country.