Ensuring utilisation of women's talents and skills

THOUGH undesirable and unpleasant, it is a bitter truth that we are yet to ensure the proper utilisation of women's talents and skills, particularly those of educated women. In most cases, when a woman gets married after completing higher education her husband or members of her husband's family do not want to see her to do any outdoor job.

As a result, these women, despite being highly educated, are left with the only job of rearing up the children and performing domestic chores. In this way their education is wasted. Not only that, a kind of negative social attitude mars the working environment for women where they are often subjected to non-evaluation and non-cooperation and harassment by their male colleagues. This also affects the entry of more educated women in offices and establishments and deprive them of their due work status. So, we shall have to rethink about giving proper value to our women and evaluate their talents and skills from a proper perspective and reconsider their participation in workforce from a social viewpoint.

Md. Tarek Aziz Bappi

Department of Political Science

University of Dhaka

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