Gender gap persists among teachers in Bangladesh's educational landscape, with only 28.22 percent of teachers being female across the country's schools.
This imbalance sees male teachers dominating educational institutions, comprising 71.78 percent of the workforce from secondary to university levels.
Contrastingly, English-medium educational institutions present a different scenario, with a majority of female teachers. Statistics reveal that 72.55 percent of teachers in English-medium schools are women, while male teachers constitute only 27.45 percent of the workforce in this sector.
These findings emerged from a workshop held on annual educational statistics at the Bangladesh Bureau of Education Information and Statistics (BANBEIS) auditorium on Thursday. The organization plans to publish the finalized data derived from the workshop.
According to BANBEIS, data collected from 123 English-medium institutions indicate that out of 5,873 teachers, 4,261 are women. Conversely, madrasas employ a significantly lower number of female teachers, with only 23,156 out of 118,280 teachers being female.
In the conventional education structure, madrasas exhibit the lowest presence of female teachers at 19.58 percent, with male teachers dominating at 81.42 percent – the highest among all education levels in the country.
Despite a higher enrollment of female students in educational institutions, comprising 50.52 percent of the student body, gender disparity among teachers persists. Private enterprises dominate the educational landscape, with 16 times more institutions compared to government establishments. Currently, there are 1,02,96,695 students enrolled from secondary to higher education institutions, with female students outnumbering males by 1,07,085. Among the 6,46,039 teachers nationwide, only 28.22 percent are female, indicating a substantial gender gap in the teaching profession.