Working women in Bangladesh are increasing day by day as it is the demand of time! Now women do not want to be dependant on others financially. For self-honour and self-confidence, to get self-identity is much required. Every morning on my way to my workplace, I see many women dressed in either salwar kameez or saree on their way to work, waiting for a CNG, CAB or sitting on the back seat of their car. They dress themselves quite elegant yet simple and professional, with their hair neatly groomed. Women, particularly in our society are expected to be house wives, taking care of the house hold chores and bringing up their children. But now-a-days, quite a number of women taking care of their house hold duties are working. Really it is not so easy to manage both house and job at a time! Few years back working for women only meant to teach at schools, but today the scenario is totally changed. Women today are working as bankers, telecom professionals, lecturers, etc.or are running their own ventures quite successfully. Many designers of different fashion houses are women and are promoting their designs by their own event management firms. They are opening their own fashion institute or interior design schools where many students are enrolling.With so many private TV channels & radios opening up in our country, women are choosing their career in the mass media and communication. Lots of women are seen choosing journalism as their profession, not to mention they are already doing good as presenters and news caster. Also, after opening up of the radio channels we see many female singers are now releasing their albums under different record labels. Due to all the opportunity around women seems to be one step ahead in choosing what they want to do professionally.
As women entrepreneurs, we see women are leading in the fashion world. Many of them owning their own fashion house, beauty salons, and also advertising firms. I was really surprised to learn few days back that the managing director of one the shipping company in Bangladesh is a woman. I am really proud and happy to let you all know that Mrs. Afruja Bari is the managing director of the one of the first shipping building companies in Bangladesh to get ship export orders from abroad. Experts believe that ship building industry will be the next top foreign currency earning sector in the near future. So, we see that women are not behind anymore though they are facing hardships and challenges everyday. By facing hardships of life & job quite successfully, now they are more confident to challenge the world!
