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Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress in recent years in terms of economic growth and empowering women, and integrating them as productive members of society. Female labor force participation has gradually increased; from 2021 to 2022, it jumped from 32.4% to 42.7%.
The Bangladeshi government has enhanced the lives of girls and women in the last two decades, including reducing maternal mortality rates by more than two-thirds and increasing gender parity in school enrollment, said the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in a recent report.