Women's Position Under The Family Laws of Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis

Abstract

Family law and women' has always been a contentious issue. In South Asia, as elsewhere, there is a simmering discontent that family law does not allow gender equality, which is apparently granted at the level of international law as well as in the realm of constitutional law. In religious and official family law, on the other hand, women have only equitable rights. In social reality, women may even be denied such equitable treatment. There is, it would seem, a popular belief that family law is the last bastion in which women need to achieve equal rights with men. The term women position refer to the status of freedom and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are grouped together and differentiated from broader notions of human rights because they often differ from the freedoms inherently possessed by or recognized for men and boys, and because activists for this issue claim an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls. These problems are now not so complex now in different family laws in BD, but further amendments are needed.