Maheen Sultan, Visiting Fellow of BIGD, attended a roundtable titled Multi Stakeholder Engagement in Reducing Women’s Heavy and Unequal Unpaid Care Work held on 15 November 2016, organised by Prothom Alo in association with Oxfam Bangladesh and UKAID. At the roundtable Ms. Maheen Sultan stated that “Anyone can do household work although it has been socially established that only women will do this kind of job”. She also urged to increase woman’s participation at the policy level along with the equal distribution of household activities between men and weman.
Meher Afroz Chumki, the State Minister for Women and Children Affairs attended the roundtable as the Chief Guest where Abdul Qayyum, Associate Editor of Prothom? moderated the event. Among others MB Akhter, Programme Director of Oxfam and Syed Alamgir, Executive Director of ACI also spoke at the event.