Bangladesh, March 6 -- The unrelenting hostility against female students within Bangladeshs educational institutions represents a formidable obstacle to the nations progress in womens empowerment. Recent incidents, including the solidarity demonstrated by students at Dhaka Universitys Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, who boycotted a class to support a peer reporting sexual harassment, underscore the urgent need for comprehensive action. Tragically, stories like that of Nusrat Rafi, who faced fatal consequences for refusing to withdraw a sexual assault case, illustrate the grave repercussions of unchecked educational inequality.

Bangladesh, often hailed as a role model in female education within South Asia, boasts impressi...