Empowerment the process of giving power of authority to the powerless. Empowerment of women is a process through which women in general and poor women in particular get the opportunity to join the workforce and contribute to family income and interfere on family as well as social affairs.
Empowerment of women in Bangladesh

Empowerment of women in Bangladesh

Women’s position in the past: In past women were segregated from out of home productive work. They were kept within the four walls. The hearth became the place for them. So cooking, cleaning, washing, giving birth and rearing children became their jobs. Men became the wage earners and all other activities became their responsibilities. In Bangladesh position of the women is very humiliating. Women are the worst suffers.

Cause of dis-empowerment there are many reasons of dis-empowerment of women in Bangladesh. Of them the following reasons are the most important.
(i) Economic reasons
(ii) socio-culture and religious reasons

(i) Economic causes: Majority of the women of our country haven’t any economic freedom. From their till death they depend on men. Though many of the women specially the rural women perform the job of rearing ducks and hens, post-harvest activities etc. nobody gives any credit for them. They are regarded as liability of the family. Until and unless they will be given economic freedom , women’s empowerment will not be possible.

(ii) Socio-culture and religious causes: In Bangladesh women are the worst sufferers. Social prejudices and customs tend to degrade their position. When a girl is born in poor family, it is not regarded as a happy event. They think that she has come as if to add to the find a husband for their daughter even before she attains physical and mental maturity. They are enters her husband’s family, that most often prove hostile to her. Most of the times if her