Women's access to the laws of Bangladesh and scope of CEDAW

Abstract

 Law and culture both play a major role in social organisation and political structure; both impacts substantially on women. But the prevalent patriarchal mindset hampers the even-handed dealing between sexes and eliminating discrimination against women. Existing various laws validate those discrimination and limit women's access to it. Even though CEDAW is effective to reduce discrimination from laws and policies, but government is less poised to accept the CEDAW principles removing discriminatory laws and policies excusing discriminatory laws are based on religious norms. Luckily, hope exists to eradicate discriminative policies and establish CEDAW through gradual bargaining with the state which I have tried to explore through my writing based on secondary sources.