This document outlines a group's mission and objectives to empower women in Bangladesh through ensuring fair wages for rural women in cottage industries. The group aims to contribute to women's empowerment by maximizing wages and creating a good market for products made by rural women. Their objectives include empowering women, ensuring fair wages, and creating awareness about using social media to promote products. The document then discusses theories of women's empowerment from figures like Gandhi, Emerson and Thoreau, and their relevance to the Bangladeshi context. It proposes recognizing women's historical contributions, especially as freedom fighters in 1971.
2. Group Members:
Name ID No.
Md. Asraf Ali 12000010
Mosammat Fariha 12000045
Md. Faisal Rahman 12000125
Md. A. K. M. Zakaria 12000009
Mifat Nayer 12000091
3. Our Mission:
To contribute in the process
of women empowerment by ensuring
maximum wage for rural women who are
involved in cottage industries in
Bangladesh.
5. Rationale
Social life of women
Economic solvency
Discrimination in workplace
Violence against women
Lack of consciousness
6. Objectives
To empower women.
To ensure maximum wage for rural women
who are involved cottage industries.
To create a good market for their products
To create awareness about the benefit of
using social media to promote their
product.
9. Mahatma Gandhi’s View on
Women Empowerment
Equality of Sexes.
Dowry System.
Education
10. Equality of sexes
Women must realize their full status and play
their part as equals of men.
The Dowry System
The dowry system is a product of the caste
system. Young men who demand dowry should
be excommunicated.
11. Education for Women
“……… to free her from mental slavery
and to teach her dignity of national
service and the service of humanity.”
12. Emerson’s Support for Women’s
Suffrage
“If women feel wronged then they are
wronged...I should vote for every
franchise for women.” —Emerson
13. In 1855, he described the women’s
movement as “no whim, but an organic
impulse…”
He argued that if women were denied
suffrage, they should also not be taxed.
14.
15. Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau was influenced by Emerson
and supported women’s right to vote.
In Civil Disobedience (1849) Thoreau argues
that it is morally justified to resist unjust laws
peacefully. It inspired suffragist involved in the
struggle for women’s suffrage
16. Martin Luther King, Jr
While advocating for civil rights, he
was also fighting for the basic
rights of women.
Supported women’s right of birth
control and family planning.
Worked of Planned Parenthood .
17.
18. New Negro Woman: women poets,
authors and intellectuals, known for their
race conscious writing.
African American women utilized the
movement to express their views on race
and gender relations.
19.
20. The Black Arts Movement, was initiated by
writer and activist Amiri Baraka.
Black feminism became an important
political statement conveyed by the women
of BAM.
They focus on race and economic status,
sexism, class oppression and racism.
21. Let’s Recognize Women’s
Contribution
Women had played vital roles in different political
and literary movements of our country, specially in
1971.
Their contribution is mostly neglected.
They are represented as victims.
Their role as freedom fighters in 1971 is not that
much focused.
27. PEER WORKS
WORKING WITH
Rural women
Underprivileged women
Women from Indigenous group
Ethnic groups
Conservatives
Free thinkers & progressive
28. EXPERT’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Prof. Manosh Chowdhury
An Anthropologist, who has some remarkable international papers
on women empowerment of Bangladesh.
Prof. Nasim Akter Hossain
A socialist political activist, working with women’s involvement in
working sector and protest or movement.
Ameena Islam
A leading news personality, working with the challenges of women
empowerment from different views of life.