Dear Martha Mam, we are very much happy by getting you among us. Hope to enrich us with learning by your participation!
As you know, In Bangladesh women are lagging behind in almost all aspects of empowerment. But in documents it is shown that girls are positively discriminated in basic education that is girls are more enrolled and doing better in Basic education. In SHIKHON program of Save the Children almost 100% teachers are female but the representation of female in management committee is not too high. Not only in SHIKHON program in all sectors of Bangladesh too, women representation is not very significant in leading and managing any program in spite of having equal competency level. I have some queries to Martha Mam on this issue:
- As girls are doing equal or better in basic education but the picture becomes reverse in secondary or higher secondary because of significant drop out of girls from schools due to mainly child marriage. My question is how the girls/female participation can be ensured for positive changes from this situation? What types of methods should I conduct to deal with this problem?
- A good number of females are home maker. They do diversified jobs for family and society. But they are not well acknowledged. Even it is applicable for the girls who are hired for domestic work. To conduct a research on it what should be the methodologies? How the sampling can be drawn? Should the male also involved in the research? How?
- In Bangladesh transgender is considered as third gender by law. But they are vulnerable everywhere. As per Education for All declaration they should be enrolled in schools too. But in reality, they do not and it is shown that this types of marginalized people get engaged in different crimes and bad jobs. How they could be under the EFA achievement? What types of policy advocacy can be done on it?
Thank you very much.
With Sincere Regards.
Taniya.