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The preparation for strike on February 21, 1952 was going on for several days. Every day, I went to girls’ schools, particularly Kamrunnesa, Banglabazar and Muslim Girls School, to organise them. ....
How prepared are our women’s right movement activists? Once at an event, advocate Sultana Kamal expressed bitterly how the women of Bangladesh have to start their race from the very beginning, whereas their male counterparts, participating in the same race, have a starting point somewhere comfortably set in the middle. The reason behind this is painfully obvious no man faces one ounce of the multitude of the problems, both at home and at large that their female counterparts must. Sultana Kamal did not just make a statement. It is indeed a fact that rings true around the world. And even more so for the women of this country. From the time of the British rule, the ground of competition has been unjustly biased against the women. The fight towards moving the female gender forward from this dark grasp has never been a struggle lasting a day or a handful of months. Nor has it been centred around a single individual. The struggle to move forward by any means has been, time a ....