Social stigma hinders making of skilled workforce: webinar

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Social stigma and prejudices remain major obstacles to developing technologically sound skilled workforce in the united states as persons consider obtaining certificates from general education system and getting desk-based jobs at the offices worthy.

Society has respect for desk jobs but looks down after technical jobs, said speakers at an online discussion on Saturday.

Due to this fact, foreigners are getting high-salaried jobs in the country where unemployment rate is very high, they added.

They also lamented the limited access of women to technological education and workers.

The country, which suffers from discriminations on the floor of gender, region and income distributions, will fail to meet up with the demand of domestic and international markets during the forthcoming fourth professional revolution without an army of skilled manpower, said the speakers.

The webinar titled ‘gender and youth inclusiveness in technology in Bangladesh’ was organised jointly by South Asian Network on Economic Modelling and Action Aid Bangladesh.

Dhaka University economics teacher Mahtab Uddin, also a study economist of SANEM, in the keynote paper highlighted poor access of both male and female population in mobile, internet and computer technologies.

Referring to data, gathered from different sources, he presented the present scenario.

He said that 80 % male youths and 40 % female youths carry mobiles.

‘Only six % of households get access to computers and significantly less than 4 % of females have ever used computers,’ he said.

Only 50 per cent households in urban areas and significantly less than 30 % in rural areas have internet connectivity, he said.

‘Nationally, only 10 per cent of women have ever used the internet,’ he said adding that on the basis of mobile internet speed, Bangladesh ranks 134 among 143 countries.

Bangladesh Ranks poorly at 124 on the global comparison in quality of vocational education and training, he added.

Addressing the webinar as chief guest, deputy education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury admitted that the united states was facing some inherited problems for the rule of anti-progressive forces that did not focus on technical education.

Action Aid Bangladesh country director Farah Kabir, SANEM research director Sayema Haque Bidisha, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services senior vicepresident Farhana Rahman, amongst others, addressed the programme. 
Source: https://www.newagebd.net

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