City Desk :
A greater degree of women involvement in all spheres of society, including economy and education, can expedite the process for women empowerment and their development in other areas, activists said.
They said once the women were given proper education and life skills, and involved in economic activities, they would become confident enough to become courageous and stand on their own in society.
The observations were made on the 7th instant at a roundtable organized to mark the International Women’s Day at the Daily Bhorer Kagoj office in the city.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki spoke on the occasion as the chief guest, while the newspaper’s editor Shyamal Datta moderated it.
“The change of attitude towards girls and females must start from families,” Chumki said, adding when a girl child was recognized with equal status by parents and relatives together, she would grow better with higher degree of confidence and self esteem.
“So, a liberal attitude from families is a must.” She also mentioned that boys get training to treat their sisters, mothers and future wives in a way which he has taught from his father or other elders at family. The guardian must have a careful took into it, she observed.
Language movement activist Rowshan Ara Batchu said women in fifties were more courageous than that of today. She said some women in 1952 dared to take part in language movement, but seldom are such instances seen in today’s Bangladesh. “Why?” she asked.
Additional Inspector General of Police Fatema Begum said the conventional perception about women must be freed from their physical beauty. Instead, the women should be valued by the virtue of their education and performance.
“The girls should be treated equal at home as a precondition for their empowerment,” she said and urged families to change their mindsets and practice equal rights for both boy and girl child in every action at family level.
A greater degree of women involvement in all spheres of society, including economy and education, can expedite the process for women empowerment and their development in other areas, activists said.
They said once the women were given proper education and life skills, and involved in economic activities, they would become confident enough to become courageous and stand on their own in society.
The observations were made on the 7th instant at a roundtable organized to mark the International Women’s Day at the Daily Bhorer Kagoj office in the city.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki spoke on the occasion as the chief guest, while the newspaper’s editor Shyamal Datta moderated it.
“The change of attitude towards girls and females must start from families,” Chumki said, adding when a girl child was recognized with equal status by parents and relatives together, she would grow better with higher degree of confidence and self esteem.
“So, a liberal attitude from families is a must.” She also mentioned that boys get training to treat their sisters, mothers and future wives in a way which he has taught from his father or other elders at family. The guardian must have a careful took into it, she observed.
Language movement activist Rowshan Ara Batchu said women in fifties were more courageous than that of today. She said some women in 1952 dared to take part in language movement, but seldom are such instances seen in today’s Bangladesh. “Why?” she asked.
Additional Inspector General of Police Fatema Begum said the conventional perception about women must be freed from their physical beauty. Instead, the women should be valued by the virtue of their education and performance.
“The girls should be treated equal at home as a precondition for their empowerment,” she said and urged families to change their mindsets and practice equal rights for both boy and girl child in every action at family level.
