Woman labor in Bangladesh

DHAKA, BANGLADESH - MARCH 06 : Bangladeshi women break bricks in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 06, 2018. With over half of the population living below the poverty line, women and children are often forced into hard manual labour such as brick breaking. Working barefoot and with rough utensils, each women worker earns Less than 2$ Us Dollars per day. in Bangladesh, the contribution of women workforce in our GDP growth is 34%. If Bangladesh can raise the participation of women in labour force by 10% within the next five years, it would play a pivotal role in driving the GDP growth by 1%, experts have said.