Bangladesh is a country that puts up a façade of gender equality. Although the Constitution and several laws provide for equal treatment and protection of women, few of these laws or constitutional rights are ever enforced. The main factor behind this is that few people view women in any role other than that of mothers or potential mothers and, under the influence of outdated "religious" beliefs, may even treat women in a family as possessions. . In addition, the ignorance that many women have regarding their rights, or the fear of reprisals from a male-dominated and very chauvinistic society, prevents them from expressing themselves, particularly in matters of business, inheritance or of violence, preferring to leave the subject aside. in the hands of male relatives who are sometimes quite distant. These attitudes have led to many disadvantages for women of all ages across the country. Fathers, believing that there is no value in educating their daughters, limit their access to education, resulting in the majority of Bangladesh's illiterate population being women. Additionally, girls as young as eight or nine are forced to work as domestic servants, while many older girls accept work in factories. The salary they receive is normally only a fraction of that paid to their male counterparts, and this type of disparity can also be seen when it comes to property inheritance, where girls may be entitled to only half of what the wires. Violence and harassment of women have also become issues of great importance in Bangladesh, with the number of cases of teasing, rape and domestic violence increasing day by day. Such trends and situations cannot be resolved overnight, but apart...... middle of document...... evidenced by the differences that can be observed between developed and developing countries . Even though women represent less than 50% of the Bangladeshi population, they nevertheless constitute a large part of it and consequently contribute to the country's demographics and the so-called social and economic progress associated with it. This shows that the impact of gender-based inequality, especially in a developing country, goes far beyond humanitarian issues and actually affects the development of the country itself, and that discrimination continues to treatment of women on the basis of their sex will only slow down the situation. pace of Bangladesh's development and prolong the suffering and mistreatment endured by women who are treated as second-class citizens in a society that once claimed to revere all women as if they were their own mothers.