Mainstreaming: An Effective Solution!

Before starting this unit for my Online course, I didn't have a clear conception about Gender mainstreaming. Though I heard the term but telling the truth, I thought this would be a term with the same meaning as gender discrimination. My vague idea takes a perfect shape when I completed the whole unit.

It isn't criticizing our male counterparts for grabbing all the positions of professional sects;but this idea is based upon the point to include women force in these fields as well along with their traditional role of MOTHER,WIFE & SISTER. Here, I would like to share some of experience regarding working women as well as women who are studying in the field of Science & Technology.

I have two friends who are studying Engineering in two different Public Universities of Bangladesh. One of them is studying in the Aeronautical Engineering dept. The most interesting thing is SHE is the ONLY FEMALE STUDENT among the 71 students of that dept.!!! Unable to grasp the situation at first,when I asked her the reason she told me that their subject demand a lot of field works and besides there's no assurance of job for a girl after passing from this dept.Here two forces are working simultaneously- 

• Parents feel insecure to let their daughters out for the field work for the fear of physical assault and criticism from her surroundings.

• The companies are also unsure about their competence with that of a male competitor. 

In these circumstances how can a girl come forward and take up the challenge of 21st century? My other friend is also facing almost these same problems.

But,these situations can surely be developed if there's going to be an intricate research on these issues because only then, we can have the capacity to overcome the hurdles and make the Gender Mainstreaming a worthy armor to maintain the proper balance of development of any nation.