Dhaka, Feb 2 (IANS) Bangladesh, led for decades by two women –former Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League and late Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) — stands in sharp contrast to the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami’s assertion that a woman cannot be a party chief or head of government – a stance widely seen as absurd and deeply regressive, a report said on Monday.

Writing for Bangladesh’s leading Bengali daily, Prothom Alo, Hasan Ferdous, an author and columnist, cited Jamaat chief, Shafiqur Rahman’s recent interview with an international media outlet in which the latter stated that a woman can never become the head of his party. The Jamaat leader argued that men and women are not equal, each having distinct roles–women give birth to children, men cannot and that the “Creator who has laid down this order”.

The party had previously stated that it does not support any woman serving as head of government or head of state.

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