Posted on 12th Nov 2026 11:24:44 PM Article
According to 1985 UN report, women who constitute half of the world’s population, still perform nearly two-thirds of all work hours but receive only one-tenth of the world income. In most countries, women face substantial salary discrimination is disadvantaged in access to educational opportunities and remain in sex-segregated occupations to a considerable extent. They own less than 1% of world properly and hold only 6% of government office (Iglitzin and Ross, 1986). Now-a-days women’s are including their sells in many developmental activities. In Bangladesh since 1991, the Prime Minister has continuously been a woman. The proportion of administrative and managerial positions held by women has increased from 1% to 2% between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s; however, in spite of this increase the number of women in still very low. In Bangladesh women have recently been linked to the global economy. Large numbers of women are working in the industrial sectors of garments, testily, pharmaceutical, electronics and chemicals. They are also employed in the agricultural sector, like shrimp and tea plantation. Since the 1980s an export based garment industry has mushroomed in Bangladesh. The most notable feature of this industry is its heavy use of women workers. At present, the garment factories in Bangladesh alone absorb 1.5 million workers of which 90% are women constituting almost 70% of the total employment in manufacturing sector, (BGMEA, 2003). The garments industry alone absorbed nearly one-fifth of the women employed in the manufacturing sector, two-thirds of those employed in medium and large scale enterprises (Zohur and Majumdar, 1996 in Afsar, 2000). The female share of the labor force in the export processing Zones is almost 72% although the women are involves the in many kind of professional activities many of the times they faced various kinds of problems. And that’s why women have very insignificant participation in professional activities.
Women, Garment, Worker, Participation, Professional, Activities, Nature, Obstacles, Mobilizatio, Bangladesh
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