Kazi Nafia Rahman, Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 08 Mar 2021 02:51 AM BdST Updated: 08 Mar 2021 02:04 PM BdST
Umme Nazmin Islam began her career as a doctor when her elder daughter was two and a half months old in 2010. After a decade, when the world was crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, she took on the fight in the COVID-19 unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital with a two-year-old son back at home. ); }
Women like Nazmin have to break down a slew of societal barriers from the duty of taking care of their families to discrimination in society – in order to move ahead and up the career ladder.