{"content":[{"text":"Women Empowerment and Sustainable Development \n Rasheda Akhter Khanam \n After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, a tremendous change has \n come in the life style and socio-economic status of women in this country. \n Some affirmative actions are also taken by the government to improve the \n education of the girl children. Special vocational training for women has \n also been undertaken under the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. As \n a whole the status of women has improved.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.087871,"width":0.705957,"height":0.24180700000000002}},{"text":"This is reflected in various social and economic indicators which are \n generally used for measuring gender equality and women’s empowerment. \n Gender gaps have been removed in case of life expectancy at birth. It is now \n equal to or higher than men’s. Gender gaps have also been closed in case of \n child mortality and immunization rates. Women’s mortality at child birth \n and fertility rate has also been reduced.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.367091,"width":0.706048,"height":0.17607199999999995}},{"text":"A tremendous economic empowerment has been achieved by the women of \n Bangladesh with the introduction of apparel industries. It has been found \n that women are particularly, suitable for working in the Garment industries. \n Their labor is cheap and their fingers are soft to make particular piece of \n work like stitch button hole or collar of the shirt. Readymade Apparel \n exports to Japan has increased to 14.90% to $ 862.08 million from $ 572.22 \n million 2013-2014 financial year. More than 90% of these workers are \n women.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.580424,"width":0.706053,"height":0.23713299999999993}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}