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Though there is a radical equality in the population of men and women, yet there is dominant inequality in the rights of women. Throughout much of the world, families and societies treat girls and boys unequally, with girls disproportionately facing privation, lack of opportunity and lower levels of investment in their health, nutrition and education and so forth. Gender-based discrimination continues in adolescence & is often a constant feature of adulthood. Bangladesh is considered as one of the least developed countries of the world. Though the world thinks about the millennium goals, yet Bangladesh has not been able to establish the fundamental rights to her people. Unequal power relations between females and males lead to widespread violations of health and human rights. Among the most persistent and pernicious are early or child marriage, sexual trafficking, sexual violence, coercion, and female genital cutting. Institutionalized legal inequality underpins laws that keep land, money and other economic resources out of girls and women’s hands, closing off avenues for redress of discrimination and creating the conditions for gender-based violence and exploitation While women represent 50% of the worlds adult population, and one-third of the official labor force, they perform nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only one tenth of the world income and own less than 1% of the worlds property´ Despite such investments in time and labor by women, why is there so much discrimination and inequality? To answer this, at first we have to know what does gender mean & inequality mean?
TRANSFORMATION IN FAMILY STRUCTURE:

The period since the end of the WWII has also witnessed a dramatic and rapid change in the nature of family structure and the composition of households. At midcentury almost 80% of all people lived in households in which there was a married couple. This meant that many adult children lived with their parents until getting married, or only