They said as the number of professional women is increasing gradually, the government and private sectors should come forward to solve their residential problems.

"Government earns huge foreign currency from the garments sector where 80 per cent of workers is women but they suffer a lot due to their residential problems."

Marshia Tashmin Akbar, a BUET student, said this at a seminar while she was presenting a research paper titled 'Housing for working women in Dhaka city: A comparative study between public and private hostels' organised by Green Force at TSC of Dhaka University.

She said the services in the private hostel are comparatively better than that of government ones. Marshia urged the owners of the private hostels to reduce rent considering the income of professional women.

Prof Mir Shahidul Islam, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) of BUET, in his speech said government should give incentive to the private sector to build more hostels for the professional women.

The seminar was also addressed by Dr. Ruksana Hafiz, Associate Professor of the URP of the BUET and Abu Naser Khan of Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA).