Bangladesh: Women in Politics: Shama Obaid Islam
Stine Eckert, Pulitzer Student Fellow
It was the first woman-to-woman race in Faridpur-2, when Shama Obaid Islam ran for a seat in parliament in the December 2008 national election in Bangladesh. A young woman new to politics, Shama Obaid Islam, 36, of the Bangladeshi National Party (BNP) challenged veteran politician 73-year-old Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury of the opposing major party, the Awami League -- and lost. But she says she has lots of time before her and just got started. Next time, she says, she will run again for her constituency of 216,000 people in Faridpur, one of the 64 districts in Bangladesh, southwest of the central capital Dhaka. In an interview she explains the obstacles she's been facing as a female politician in patriachal Bangladesh (part 1 of 2).
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