Women will account for 30 percent of parliamentary seats and half the country’s workforce by 2021, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told an international audience on Monday as she spelled out the steps taken by her government to boost women’s political, economic and social empowerment.
Globally, women are also making progress, but it’s still not enough, she said at the programme organised by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to discuss women’s equal partnership with men and their empowerment.
“In recent times, there has been progress, but not enough. Women’s participation in all spheres of society is small,” she told the ‘Equal Futures Partnership’ event at Astor Room of the Inter Continental Barclay Hotel.
Hasina seized the opportunity of telling the international audience about a series of measures her government has taken for the welfare and empowerment of women in Bangladesh.
She pledged to raise women’s participation in parliament and all tiers of political leadership from 20 percent to 30 percent by 2021.
Read more at The Daily Star, published 25 September 2012.
Women will account for 30 percent of parliamentary seats and half the country’s workforce by 2021, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told an international audience on Monday as she spelled out the steps taken by her government to boost women’s political, economic and social empowerment.
Globally, women are also making progress, but it’s still not enough, she said at the programme organised by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to discuss women’s equal partnership with men and their empowerment.
“In recent times, there has been progress, but not enough. Women’s participation in all spheres of society is small,” she told the ‘Equal Futures Partnership’ event at Astor Room of the Inter Continental Barclay Hotel.
Hasina seized the opportunity of telling the international audience about a series of measures her government has taken for the welfare and empowerment of women in Bangladesh.
She pledged to raise women’s participation in parliament and all tiers of political leadership from 20 percent to 30 percent by 2021.
Read more at The Daily Star, published 25 September 2012.