July 13, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Donate NowStine Eckert, Pulitzer Student Fellow
Another problem for women in Bangladeshi society is the so-called eve-teasing, verbal insults that women encounter on the street or in public institutions. It can be compared to whistling at a woman in Western society but can take other more abusing forms. Twenty-year old student of women studies at Dhaka University, Kuntala Chowdhury, shares her experience with eve-teasing and the helplessness she felt
despite a law in place.