It is due to Eve's greed, Adam was brainwashed to eat the apple. It is not a surprise that women tend to be more materialistic than men. In a modern perspective, women are abused and looked down upon. All over the world women are prone to severe violence. Eight women are raped in the United States every minute. Moreover, it is quite a task to collect similar data in Kenya, Bangladesh or any other developing country. Such is the prevalence of domestic violence, it seems like a regular household matter.

It is nature that women are "weaker," but they are also THE source of pleasure for man. Without women, these heartless males such as me would not be on the surface of the earth. Without women, would his son be born? It is about time man starts to thank women for their role in society. It is now time that we start recognising these women from the grassroots level. The first writing in Cuneiform included a sentence about rape. There is no reason such an offense should remain in the world. Man would rather be better without it, than with it.

The Bible mentions that Eve was asked to stay at the Garden of Eden, take care of the place and Adam. Today women cannot be restricted into their harems. To change a country like Bangladesh women need empowerment. Undoubtedly, women are using their potential in full, otherwise Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina would not be warriors in the battlefield. A lot has been done to positively exploit the huge work force of women, however there remains a range of more programmes to be completed.

In case of any third world country this is a clear-cut, straightforward and rather effortless task. Micro credit projects, animators conferences, women food farmers, are some agenda meant to make women from the very grassroots self reliant on the economy. However men need to understand the value of women. In Bangladesh it seems, men will never learn to value women.

During my recent trip to Dhaka, the cook at my family house dearly enjoyed telling me the story of how hard it is to maintain his large family. He had expected to get a salary raise or some bakshish, but he was little delighted to hear my suggestion of employing his wife somewhere. He promptly replied, "Sir, don't you see the situation of the country, people dying everyday, price of essentials rising, it's all because women are ruling the country. Wherever ladies are placed, they ruin it. I don't want my wife to be ruining the business or household she enters. She will repeat the failure of women." I stared at him in awe.

We are constantly pushing for such radical changes in society. The cook should not receive the blame for such sexist comments. He is an eye witness to such dilemma, that he responds to the political situation in relation to his wife. If the rest of the country is thinking along the same school of thought as him, then the country needs to go through dramatic changes in society which is often not studied. The mindset of the people towards women should be gone through.

The Bangladesh government must take severe actions to change this mindset. With roughly 70 million women, the population is and will remain unequal. For sustainable development the female sex has to well operate in the economy. Long gone are the days of Adam and Eve. Now the Eves are a necessity for the new world order. It is about time the global village be taken advantage of to put all of society together and bring the men and women together. Many solutions to gender equality have been found, governments according to their needs should adapt these policies and pay closer attention to the details.

While I lived in Bangladesh, I denounced women's rights and thought of it as unnecessary. Now that I have lived in the US for a considerable amount of time I realized that women are deprived not only in Bangladesh, but throughout every corner of the world. The world is patriarchal and to remodeling a nation such as Bangladesh the exploit of half the population is a necessity. To change the mindset of the people, we the men must unite. With this realization I joined an organization dedicated to stopping violence against women. It is now my duty to organise the men in the world to stop violence against women. This organisation should be launched in Bangladesh soon enough. If the mission is successful at least in Bangladesh, I will make myself a proud expatriate.