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30 pc of private teaching jobs reserved for women

AFP, Dhaka
The government has ordered all private schools, colleges and madrasas to reserve 30 per cent of teaching jobs for women compared to the current level of about 10 per cent, a minister said yesterday.
The decision has sparked protests from religious leaders who say the rules should be relaxed for madrasa, where boys and girls are taught separately.
"Every non-government educational institution has to fill up 30 percent of their teaching staffs with female teachers," State Minister for Education Ehsanul Haq Milon told AFP.
"The aim is to boost the number of women in the workforce. We want to keep teaching jobs as a privilege forwomen,"hesaid. "We want them
to come out of their homes and take up jobs in increasing numbers."
States subsidies to private educational institutions failing to meet the new requirement will be cut, Milon said.
The government annually pays some 90 per cent of the salaries of teachers in non-government schools. Around 470,000 teachers are on the payroll of some 27,970 private educational institutions, officials say.
Bangladesh had earlier reserved 60 per cent of teaching jobs for women in government primary schools, boosting the percentage of female teachers in the 37,700 such schools in the country to 38 per cent so far from 22 percent in 1991.
The chief inspector of the Madrasa Education Board, Abdul Wadud, said the religious schools, which cater mainly for boys, would
find it difficult to comply with the new order.
Of the 7,945 madrasas, only around 12 per cent are girls-only institutions and the rest are reserved solely for males, he said.
"We have already told the education minister to relax the rules for us," said Maulana Jainal Abedin, the head of the country's biggest private madrasa, Tamirul Millat.
"He had earlier given us an assurance," Abedin told AFP. "Our demand is specific and we want segregation in this regard. The male teachers will be allowed to teach only in boys-only madrasas while female teachers will be for the girls-only madrasas."
Bangladesh is the world's third largest Muslim majority country with a population of around 140 million.