women's day

SUB celebrates International Women’s Day 2025 with an inspiring discussion on “Breaking Barriers: Women in Academia and Beyond”

SUB proudly observed International Women’s Day 2025 on March 8, 2025, with an insightful discussion on “Breaking Barriers: Women in Academia and Beyond”

Biman operates flight with all female crew on Int’l Women’s Day

The special flight was led by Captain Anita and First Officer Tasnuva

International Women's Day: The grim truth behind the Lalmatia GBV case

This incident, under the guise of moral policing, is yet another example of the deteriorating state of women’s rights and safety in Bangladesh.

Economics is irredeemably sexist

Economics has an intractable “women problem.”

Reader Submission / Leave it up to women to choose

A woman can and should have the choice to do whatever she wants.

Invest more to accelerate gender equality

Achieving gender equality requires collective effort from all members of society.

INT'L WOMEN'S DAY 2023 / 300 years needed to reach full gender equality

UN chief stresses the importance of having women's contribution in technology and innovation.

Using innovation and technology for gender equality

Digital transformation holds immense potential for accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Why every woman must ask for more

Every Women’s Day, I suffer from this ambivalent feeling of euphoria and despair.

March 8, 2023
March 8, 2023

300 years needed to reach full gender equality

UN chief stresses the importance of having women's contribution in technology and innovation.

March 7, 2023
March 7, 2023

Using innovation and technology for gender equality

Digital transformation holds immense potential for accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment.

March 7, 2023
March 7, 2023

Why every woman must ask for more

Every Women’s Day, I suffer from this ambivalent feeling of euphoria and despair.

March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023

Caught between two pandemics

According to our study, 17 percent of women experienced physical abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic, 30 percent of them reported mental torture while 34 percent reported no harassment or abuse

March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023

Voicing and challenging workplace sexual harassment in Bangladesh

Workplace sexual harassment is common in Bangladesh. It inhibits  women from entering the labour market and is also a major reason why they drop out of work.

March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023

How medical evidence is used to discredit rape complainants

The need for corroborative or medical evidence to prove rape (and therefore these two rules) violates the global standards set by the UN and the WHO.

March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023

What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence

The link between the structural and personal is continually at risk of getting obscured in favour of an individualist reading of interpersonal violence.

March 5, 2023
March 5, 2023

What we learnt about SRHR from our work with landless groups

How can a development organisation in Bangladesh truly reach the grassroots?

March 9, 2022
March 9, 2022

Celebrating women in STEM

Today, we are focusing on women who triumphed against all odds and have changed the world for the better through the field of science.

March 7, 2022
March 7, 2022

8 female lead movies to watch

Even though we believe women should be celebrated every day, there are some instances which you just cannot avoid. In this case, it’s the movies. Everyone likes to give a good reviewed movie a watch but even to this date, there are very few genuine female-led movies that have received the love from their viewers.