Female Education in Bangladesh/Female Education

Education is the birthright of everybody. It makes a harmonious development of one’s conservative mental faculties. So, opportunities and facilities for education should be held open to everybody. In this respect, no discrimination should be made between man and woman. In fact, education must be universal.

Some people oppose female education. They opine that women are intellectually inferior to men. So they are mainly meant inhabitants only of the hearth and home. They should deal with the kitchen. They should perform the hearth and duties, bring up the children and yield comforts to their male partners. On the whole, their duties are totally confined to the inner apartment.

None of the arguments stated above holds water. It is true that women have some special tasks to perform inside the household. But these special tasks cannot be properly done by an uneducated mistress as she is not in a position to do her household duties in sound manner. We can expect the women to acquit themselves well even in their special tasks only when they are given proper education.

Women are found equal to men in all respects except in physical strength. The question of their intellectual inferiority lays bare a negative answer. So there should not be any distinction between men and women in respect of education. Many women are now successfully competing with men in many active branches of life. Thus there cannot be any grounds to deprive women of the rights and benefits of education. Women also have their social responsibilities. Half of the people of our country are women. No development can be brought about in our society without the participation of the half of its members. And development work cannot carry out successfully without uneducated women. Thus women should be educated at the earliest. It may be advisable to modify the old system of education for our girls. Subjects like Home, Economics, domestic Science, Cooking, Sewing and nursing etc should be included in the course of study.

It is a good sign that there is a general awakening among the women. The United Nations Charter provides for removal of discrimination between men and women. The women of our country are also coming out of their domestic walls and working side by side with men in every walk of life. Our government is making all-out efforts to pave the way for female education in our country. We should remember that educations one of the fundamental rights of everybody- male or female.