Empowering Women to Eliminate Gender Discrimination in Asia

Abstract

Gender is a common term where as gender discrimination is meant only for women, because females are the only victims of gender discrimination and it is more pervasive in Asia. Gender discrimination is not biologically determined but it is determined by socially. This discrimination against women can be and must be changed with proper and perpetuate efforts. Half of the world’s population is females. They are doing two-third of labor of the total work in the world but received only one-tenth of the world’s total income. Nearly two-third of the women is illiterate and they have possessed only one third of the world’s assets. In the world, only one-fourth of the families are headed by female. Bangladesh is a male dominant society and gender discrimination is customized habitually. The paper attempts to address few important issues like- issues related with gender discrimination, areas of gender inequity and how best to eliminate it in the Asian countries.