Gender Equality

Jahangirnagar University’s Students Counselling and Guidance Centre provides psychosocial support, counselling, career guidance, and skills development activities. Its published services include individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and victim or survivor advocacy. These university-wide services offer support relevant to women navigating academic, personal, and professional challenges.

The university also publishes scholarship and financial assistance opportunities.

Jahangirnagar University maintains an official webpage for its Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee, including information defining sexual harassment. This provides an institutional reference point for addressing harassment within the university community.

Published university faculty records document women’s service in academic and administrative leadership. For example, Professor Rasheda Akhtar’s profile records previous roles as Chairperson of Anthropology, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Director of the Students Counselling and Guidance Centre, and Convener of the Sexual Harassment Complaint Committee. These examples demonstrate women’s participation in university leadership and student welfare.

Jahangirnagar University’s academic work includes research on gender, health, technology, culture, and media. University-hosted journals also publish studies examining gendered language in law and policy, women’s economic empowerment through microcredit, and gender-inclusive climate adaptation. This scholarship contributes to understanding inequalities and identifying approaches to more equitable development.