Bangladesh: Aumio Srizan Samya on why he chose Women's Studies

Stine Eckert, Pulitzer Student Fellow

Increasingly more boys are joining the group of about 30 students per semester who enter the women studies program at Dhaka University, the number one university in Bangladesh. One of them is 25-year old Aumio Srizan Samya who has started his master's in women studies after completing a four-year bachelor in the department. He says his academic field of interest has caused some surprise for parts of his family.