Women’s overseas jobs rebound in October

More than 100,000 Bangladeshi women workers have secured overseas jobs in the last 10 months to October, the government has said.

Of the total, two-thirds of the women were recruited by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where they were employed mainly in the housekeeping sector, according to the data of the state-run Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).

Sector-insiders said although the outflow of women workers dropped slightly after May, it picked up from the last month.

They expressed the hope that the upward trend in recruitment will continue over the remaining part of the year.

The BMET statistics showed that in the January-October period, around 100,136 women workers went overseas with employment. Of them, some 66,773 workers went to Saudi Arabia, up from 57,604 in 2016.

Jordan has become the second-largest recipient country of Bangladeshi female workers recruiting 17,400 (17.4 per cent) female migrants, followed by Oman 7,879, Qatar 2,775, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 2,712 in the last 10 months.

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