Napoleon once said, "Give me an educated mother and I will give you an educated nation”. This statement is enough to prove the importance of female education. Women are the half of our total population. So, female education is badly necessary to make half of our population literate for a balanced way.

Once a time, female education was seriously neglected in Bangladesh. Our women folk could not get the chance of education for various problems. Early marriage and the narrowness of our outlook were mainly responsible for this. Parents thought it wastage of time and money to educate their girls. They considered that girls were intellectually inferior to male children. They want their girls to be confined to the kitchen only and perform household chores and look after the male members of the family. They did not allow them to move freely and to participate in any outside work. They do not understand that if girl children are educated they can be as competent as male children. They do not also understand that when girls are educated, they can become a good house manager, a good mother at home and even a good officer outside.

It is unfortunate that in our society there are some people who strongly oppose the female education. However, the scenario is changing nowadays. At present, girls are being encouraged to study and admitted into schools, colleges and universities. Government has also taken some steps to educate our female children. Education for girls up to degree level has been made free with a monthly stipend. This encourages them to continue their education. We should remember that only educated women can change the picture of our society. We hope the literacy rate of women in our country will increase substantially in near future.