Bangladesh has been experiencing a gradual increase in the number of women joining government jobs, with nearly 29.3 percent of the public servants being women now, compared with over 24 percent a decade ago. Maleka Banu, general secretary of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, on the other hand, thinks that besides ensuring more women in the workforce, women's participation in decision making should be enhanced further. More than 1.9 million approved posts are available in the government job sectors, according to the statistics of government employees published by the public administration ministry in 2022. As many as 1.39 million employees are working in those posts, including 987,679 men and 409,139 women. Data from a decade ago shows that 1.19 million people had government jobs in 2013.

Source: bd News24 July 07, 2023 21:19 UTC