can adopt but a married woman can't adopt even with her husband's permission. The husband
must adopt with her consent. The Act reduces the male's exclusive right of adoption and now
under this Act both boys and girls may be adopted. Identity of caste of adoptive parents and
children, which was under the Shastric Hindu law, has also
been abolished by the Act.
Legal Frame .work
Because of the lack of "uniform family code" minority women are the victims of discrimination
between Muslims and Hindus in Bangladesh and in reality we observe this discrimination affects
Hindu women in their socio-economic life.
Hindu law does not allow dissolution. of marriage. So practically divorce is unknown to Hindu law.
Change of religion or loss of caste or the adultery of either party or the fact of wife deserting her
husband and becoming a prostitute does not operate as dissolution of marriage.
In the context of Bangladesh, participation of minority women in mainstream politics are far
beybhd the reality where majority Muslim has limited access to politics mainly because of
religion, social, cultural, educational and economic conditions. Out of 330 Parliament MeMbers
only one Hindu women are the MP and she is nominated not elected. In local government there
are very few number minority women, are either elected or nominated but absence of
government policy discourage the women to get into the politics. .
Religious and cultural point of view minority women are rarely welcome to the politics, economic
and socio-cultural activities. In Bangladesh 60% national GDP growth is contributed by the
women where minority women's contribution are almost not countable. Unfortunately, out of that