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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Star file photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today alleged that it was a male-dominated society that had tried to implement the much-talked-about 'minus-two' formula, excluding Hasina and BNP chief Khaleda Zia from politics during the last caretaker government.
The premier came up with the allegation while addressing a function marking the International Women's Day at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre BICC
Hasina, who also heads the ruling Awami League, said now the number of female political leaders at the top has marked a rise as the ruling party chief is a woman and the leaders of the opposition is also a woman apart from the female leader of another political party.That demonstrates that the efforts of the male-dominated society' have failed. What will they call it now? Instead of two we now three she wondered.
Hasina has called upon all to vow afresh to establish an equality-based world where equal rights, honour and dignity of women would be enhanced.
Mentioning that the country’s more than half of the population are women, the prime minister said achieving the desired socioeconomic progress is impossible pushing the women away from the development process.
In this connection, she called upon both men and women to work together for building poverty- and illiteracy-free Bangladesh through ensuring women empowerment, equal rights, equal opportunities and their involvement in the mainstream national development.
Hasina urged the country’s womenfolk to be well-educated and establish themselves as equally as their male counterparts are in society saying they will have to build their own fortune as no one will come forward to help change their fate.