Editing Economy of Bangladesh (section)

==Bangladeshi women and the economy==
{{Main|Women in Bangladesh}}
[[File:bangladesh labour force participation 2013.png|thumb|Male and female labour participation rates]]
As of 2014, female participation in the labour force is 58 percent as per World Bank data,<ref>{{cite web|title=World Bank|url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS|publisher=[[World Bank]]|access-date=17 November 2016}}</ref> and male participation at 82 percent. Through the efforts of government and non-governmental organizations like [[CARE International]], the participation of women in the Bangladeshi politics and the economy has improved drastically.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bangladeshi women are rising-onwards and upwards! |url=https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/bangladeshi-women-are-rising-onwards-and-upwards |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=blogs.worldbank.org |date=8 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

A 2007 World Bank report stated that the areas in which women's work force participation have increased the most are in the fields of agriculture, education and health and social work.<ref name=whispers/> Over three-quarters of women in the labour force work in the agricultural sector.  On the other hand, the International Labour Organization reports that women's workforce participation has only increased in the professional and administrative areas between 2000 and 2005,  demonstrating women's increased participation in sectors that require higher education.  Employment and labour force participation data from the World Bank, the UN, and the ILO vary and often under report on women's work due to unpaid labour and informal sector jobs.<ref>{{cite report|last=Mahmud |first=Simeen |author2=Sakiba Tasnee |year=2011 |title=The Under Reporting of Women's Economic Activity In Bangladesh: An Examination of Official Statistics |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10361/1528 |publisher=BRAC Development Institute|hdl=10361/1528 }}</ref>  Though these fields are mostly paid, women experience very different work conditions than men, including wage differences and work benefits. Women's wages are significantly lower than men's wages for the same job with women being paid as much as 60–75 percent less than what men make.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hossain|first=Mohammad|author2=Clement A. Tisdell|title=Closing the Gender Gap in Bangladesh: Inequality in Education, Employment and Earnings|journal=International Journal of Social Economics|year=2005|volume=32|issue=5|pages=439–453|doi=10.1108/03068290510591281|url=http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/106948/files/WP%2037.pdf}}</ref>

One example of action that is being taken to improve female conditions in the work force is [[Non-governmental organization|Non-Governmental Organisations]]. These NGOs encourage women to rely on their own self-savings, rather than external funds provide women with increased decision-making and participation within the family and society.<ref name="Kabeer-p2044-2062">{{cite journal |last=Kabeer|first=Naila|author2=Muhmud Simeen |author3=Jairo Isaza |title=NGOs and the Political Empowerment of Poor People in Rural Bangladesh: Cultivating the Habits of Democracy?|journal=World Development|year=2012|volume=40|issue=10|pages=2044–2062|doi=10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.011}}</ref>   However, some NGOs that address microeconomic issues among individual families fail to deal with broader macroeconomic issues that prevent women's complete autonomy and advancement.<ref name="Kabeer-p2044-2062" />