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Bangladeshi women lag behind in labour force: WB

Star Business Report
Bangladesh lags behind Sub Shaharan Africa and East and North African countries in bringing more women in labour force in the last three decades, according to a World Bank report launched yesterday.
Around 552 million women joined in the labour force between 1980 to 2009, according to the report tided "The World Development Report (WDR) 2012: Gender Equality and Development".
In Bangladesh, women's participation in workforce rose to 58.7 percent in 2009 from 56.7 percent in 1980, it said.
The WB launched the WDR 2012 at The Westin, Dhaka. Sudhir Shetty, co-director of the WDR, presented the report.
The report said Bangladesh has made progress in attaining women empowerment in various areas, including fertility, infant and child mortality and female education.
According to the report, a woman earns only 12 cents for every dollar a man earns in Bangladesh. The figure is lowest among countries such as Sri Lanka, Malawai, Nigeria, Mexico and Germany. For example, a woman in Sri Lanka etuns 50 cent for every dollar a man earns.
The report said women's life expec-tancy in Bangladesh has risen to 68.9 years in 2009 from 46.7 years in 1960, higher than the average in South Asia and
Sub Shaharan Africa.
But the WB blamed prevalence of domestic abuse in Bangladesh.
"And no issue is more disturbing than widespread violence against women, much of it through spousal abuse, requiring difficult shifts in attitudes and behaviour."
The report cited Matlab of Chandpur district in Bangladesh where around 42 percent of women are abused by their domestic partner.
Speaking at the programme, Finance AMA Muhith also favoured laws to protect and ensure the rights of women even if those laws are less implemented, adding: "It sometimes help in case any woman seeks to exercise the right."
Muhith termed the absence of inheritance law as a 'big problem' in tackling gender inequality. He said tackling the law is not simple rather complex in the face of fatwa and wrong interpretation of Shariah.
But the minister expressed hope that the inheritance law would be changed giving women the rights to land and other resources.
Foreign Minsiter Dipu Moni said Bangladesh has achieved gender parity in primary education while making progress in secondary and tertiary education.
Sate Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and WB's Country Director Ellen Goldstein also spoke.