'India can learn from Bangladesh on women's empowerment'

[holysaturn]

More women are educated than in Bangladesh!!!!!!! Well Bangladesh then you have to learn empowerment of men from India. Why is it that when the statistics are tilted in favorable to women everyone is appreciative but when otherwise they cry discrimination???? Gynocracy everywhere

 

[Bilal9]

More women are educated than in Bangladesh!!!!!!! Well Bangladesh then you have to learn empowerment of men from India. Why is it that when the statistics are tilted in favorable to women everyone is appreciative but when otherwise they cry discrimination???? Gynocracy everywhere

Are you aware of what century you are living in? Just checking.

Job seekers will go where they can be hired and payed. If Bengal today started construction on mega projects, migrant workers from around India would come, as well as migrants whom may be illegal to make a living. India isn't nessearily the greener pasture, but jobs are being created on a much larger scale, and has demand plus considering the muslims are willing to do jobs that strick hindus will not, ie butcher or leather industry, theres a lot of money to be made like wise prejudiced and racism will exist as well. You can not deny that with BDs population, a small perceent can accumulate a very big number of illegal migrants. And you can not deny that India isn't progressing, jobs are being created as well as demand on volumes greater than what BD can do by itself. Its just numbers.

That being said, the reason why girls are trafficked to India via BD is not because they want a larger market for the flesh the sell, it is because these women most of whom are doing this against their will, its modern slavery and BD authorities, or the family of the girl can have a better chance of rescueing the girl if she is in BD, so if you sell her to a pimp in India, she will be less likily be traced, pimps hands get cleaned and the girl looses hope of escape in a foreign land that she is not familiar with. Its about isolated the girls and this is why girls from Nepal, end up in Mumbai or Dhaka and girls from Northern India end up in the South.

Its illegal in both countries, and most countries but you can't stop men for paying women for sex. Oldest trade their is, and its hard wired in the DNA of every man and women to exploit this. BD has ghettos as well, full of prostitutes and this is in a Islamic nation, and you can find prostitutes out on the street even in Suadi Arabia but for obvious reason they are veiled. You don't think Indian, BD or Pakistan girls don't end up in Saudi Arabia as prostitutes or slaves?
The issue is simple. The solution is more complex than you could imagine expecially for developing nations.
I will agree the BSF on the BD border are not the brightist and infact lacking in morals and training let alone education, but they are what India has and despite that, they stop mojority or the easy pickings of trafficking. Its like a scarecrow tactic, you don't expect them to solve the issue 100 percent but even a 25 percent reduction or more is welcome. The BSF has been noted by GOI to be under performing and ill trained which is okay for the most part, and this is why their INSAS rifles where taken away from them for pump action shot guns. BSF on BD border are no better than the Indian Police and just as underpayed. I don't know the situation in BD of their BSF but i'd imagine manning a larger border as this is also a resource drain.

Punishment for rape is not just an Indian problem but a BD problem as well. I've seen VICE news on it, same problem smaller story. India is still trying to understand the scope of rape, let alone reduce it.
Off topic, if you wanna know whats bad, is when you don't know even an estimate of rape ie Pakistan or Afghanistan.
The Social work done for women in BD is being done with the same approach in India given the similar customs and traditions. Because of this we can understand a little of scope of the problem, but vast majority of rapes are silent.

Thanks for your well thought out reply. I believe one should try to resolve the demand problem and encourage the BSF to turn away these poor people from both countries from crossing borders. If you allow these kinds of conditions to fester unchecked - it only gets worse. I don't think Pakistan or Saudi has the equivalent of Mumbai's prostitute slums because they are more strict about it.

 

[holysaturn]

Are you aware of what century you are living in? Just checking.



Thanks for your well thought out reply. I believe one should try to resolve the demand problem and encourage the BSF to turn away these poor people from both countries from crossing borders. If you allow these kinds of conditions to fester unchecked - it only gets worse. I don't think Pakistan or Saudi has the equivalent of Mumbai's prostitute slums because they are more strict about it.

A century where both men and women are equal and not let others oppress them and cry oppression, a century where women get privileges,reservations and free stuff from the govt and still claim they compete equally.
A century where sacrifices of women are highlighted(which it should be) but mens sacrifices are ignored.
A century where women use family courts to torture men and their family(women included).
A century where artificially forcing political correctness is considered fair.
Why would men in pakistan and saudi go to a prostitute when he can have many legal wives???

I have suffered,my friends have suffered by artificial political correctness,but some men are just brainwashed men dont realize what the country has turned into.

 

[desimorty]

Thanks for your well thought out reply. I believe one should try to resolve the demand problem and encourage the BSF to turn away these poor people from both countries from crossing borders. If you allow these kinds of conditions to fester unchecked - it only gets worse. I don't think Pakistan or Saudi has the equivalent of Mumbai's prostitute slums because they are more strict about it.

Vice proved you wrong.
You can not curtail demand unless you want women to open up their legs for 1 night out clubbing but you can increase quality of living and strengthen family structures. We are Asians, not Western. Prostitution will exist and in China, they have a huge flesh market, Chinese women are found all of the world, even Russian. What we can do is increase women empowerment, increase punishment for pimps and traffickers, and increase quality of living via employment. Do that and women will only prostitute themselves on their terms not some slave industry.

 

[TopCat]

Vice proved you wrong.
You can not curtail demand unless you want women to open up their legs for 1 night out clubbing but you can increase quality of living and strengthen family structures. We are Asians, not Western. Prostitution will exist and in China, they have a huge flesh market, Chinese women are found all of the world, even Russian. What we can do is increase women empowerment, increase punishment for pimps and traffickers, and increase quality of living via employment. Do that and women will only prostitute themselves on their terms not some slave industry.

You are in circular logic trying to equate BD flesh market is as par with India.

1) Historically there is no brothel in our Chittagong and Sylhet division.
2) All brothels in Dhaka city and surrounding metropolitan are closed 20 long years ago. Narayanganj used to host one of the biggest brothel in the whole sub continent named Tanbajar closed. Another brothel inside Dhaka named English Road closed.
3) Brothel in Tangail, Maymenshingh, Magura closed in the last couple of years.
4) Most smaller brothels are almost non existence.
5) Brothels in Bani Santa (Khulna), Jessore and Daulotdia (seen in the video) still operating marginally in dismal condition hosting around 5000 girls all together. With Padma bridge comes operational it will automatically get closed I believe.

Now as you seen in the video you can surely anticipate the dismal business condition of the brothel.
You can still read tokoname0569: 19 Jul (Fri) Abondoned Brothel, Banishanta

 

[dray]

"There are more girls than boys in many schools across Bangladesh. In many schools, the ratio is 200 girls to 150 boys

This shows that the Bangladeshi male children don't go to school and waste much of the time trolling in pdf!

 

[Bilal9]

How Bangladesh outpaces India on human development indicators
Joanna Sugden

Gender equality is good for growth

India is richer, in terms of per-capita economic output, than its smaller neighbor Bangladesh, and a greater proportion of Indians are connected to the Internet and have cellphones.

But if you look more closely at other measures of development such as life expectancy, child survival, and the proportion of girls to boys in secondary education, Bangladesh comes out ahead.

The two countries spend the same proportion (1%) of their gross domestic product on healthcare, but India devotes more of its GDP (3%) to education than Bangladesh (2%).

Still, 20 years of targeted financial support in Bangladesh to get girls to go to high school rather than, for example, get married, has helped dramatically shift the needle on human-development indicators there.

“Gender equality is good for economic growth and good for human development. That is really part of what explains the quite remarkable achievements in Bangladesh,” said Christine Hunter, country representative for UN Women in Bangladesh.

In pursuit of the 2015 Millennium Development Goal to redress the lopsided gender imbalance in high schools, Bangladesh began the secondary-school subsidy program for girls in 1993.

Funded by the government, the Asian Development Bank, the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation and the European Union, the education-payment program contributed to a tripling of participation rates of girls in secondary school between 1991 and 2005, according to a World Bank analysis. Bangladesh met the goal ahead of time.

Some 88% of women are literate in Bangladesh, compared to 68% of women in India. Though the overall adult literacy rate is lower in Bangladesh (59%) than in India (63%).

“The moment that there was education equality, there was power of the mind, then there was financial power,” said Joyeeta Bhattacharjee, research fellow on Bangladesh from Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi-based think tank. “That is really helping Bangladesh to change.”

The gains in female education have, along with the booming garment industry, helped boost female participation in the paid labor force.

Around 36% of women were in paid jobs in Bangladesh in 2010, up from just 14% in 1990, according to the International Labor Organisation.

By comparison, in India, female employment has gone backwards in recent years -- from 37% in 2004-05 to 29% in 2009, according to the ILO.

Empowering women financially and establishing a thriving micro-credit system for female-led small businesses, has also meant women have more say over financial decisions in the family.

“They try to prioritize health and education across everyone in their family,” said Ms Hunter of the UN.

From roughly the same base as India, Bangladesh has brought its life expectancy for both men and women up from 47 years to 70 years since 1970. Indians, on average, live to 66, according to UN data.

Child mortality rates too have come down, from 144 deaths per 1,000 under-fives in 1990 in Bangladesh, to 41 in 2013.

In that time, India has moved the dial on child mortality from 126 deaths per 1,000 children aged under five years old to 53 per 1,000.

India ranks 13 places below Bangladesh in child mortality globally.

“India can learn from the support that the government in Bangladesh has given to NGOs,” said Ms Bhattacharjee. “It is trying to learn from the micro-credit system.”

Joanna Sugden
Joanna Sugden is the Editor of India Real Time, The Wall Street Journal’s online journal about India. This article was first published on India Real Time.


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