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It is high time to give economic recognition to women’s unpaid care and domestic work, said speakers at an event yesterday.

Along with policymakers, women themselves must come forward to implement this, they said.

They made the remarks at the national women’s conference titled “Role of Women’s Rights-Based Organisations in Bringing Gender Equality,” organised by Manusher Jonno Foundation at the capital’s Gulshan.

Speaking as chief guest, Sagufta Yasmin, lawmaker and chairperson of parliamentary standing committee on Ministry of Women and Child Affairs, emphasised the need to include unpaid care work in GDP calculation.

“The path of women’s progress may never be easy; women themselves have to make their own safe roads,” she said.

MJF Executive Director Shaheen Anam chaired the conference. She highlighted the collective responsibility to protect women’s rights.

“Underprivileged women, local organisations, government, and citizens must come forward to protect women’s rights,” she said in her welcome speech.

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