Bangladesh is a country that hides a facade of gender equality. Although the Constitution and various laws include provisions for the equal treatment and protection of women, few of these laws or constitutional rights are ever enforced. The main factor behind this is that few people see women in any role other than that of mothers or potential mothers and, under the further influence of outdated “religious” beliefs, may even treat women in a family as property. Furthermore, the ignorance that many women possess regarding their rights, or the fear of repercussions from a male-dominated and highly chauvinistic society, prevents them from speaking up for themselves, especially in matters concerning business, inheritance or violence, preferring leave the matter. in the hands of sometimes very distant male relatives. These attitudes have led to many disadvantages for women of all ages nationwide. Fathers, believing that there is no value in their daughters' education, limit their access to education, resulting in the majority of the illiterate population in Bangladesh being women. Additionally, girls as young as eight or nine are forced to work as maids, while many older girls start working in factories. The salary they receive is normally only a fraction of that paid to their male colleagues, and this type of disparity can also be seen when considering the inheritance of assets, where daughters may only be entitled to half of what sons have . Violence and harassment against women have also become issues of great importance in Bangladesh, with the number of cases of teasing, rape and domestic abuse increasing day by day. Trends and situations like these cannot be solved overnight, but other than… middle of paper… they are quickly highlighted by the differences that can be observed between developed and developing nations. Even though women constitute less than 50% of the population of Bangladesh, they still constitute a good part of it and consequently contribute to the demography of the country and the so-called social and economic progress associated with them. This shows that the impact of gender inequality, especially in a developing country, goes far beyond humanitarian issues and actually impacts the development of the country itself, and that continued discrimination against women on the basis of their gender will only serve slow the pace of Bangladesh's development and will prolong the suffering and mistreatment of women, treated as second-class citizens in a society that once claimed to revere all women as if they were its own mothers.