Abstract:
This study addressed the nature and extent of female wage labour and the wage gap with their male
counterpart in the selected areas of Sirajgonj and Dhaka Districts of Bangladesh. There were four
categories of labour. Farm survey method was used to collect primary data from the field labour and the
rice mill worker and labour of construction work at few villages under Royganj, Tarash, and Salanga
Upazilas of Sirajgonj and Dhaka district for the study. ANOYA and ANCOYA Models were used for
analyzing the data set. It is noted that, the female labour's working hours/day, working days/week are
much less than male labour that is why wage of female labours is much lower than the male labours in
selected areas of Bangladesh. It is also noted that the wage rate is much lower in the case of female
workers. The major findings of the study indicated the way of increasing income of female labour depends
on the reduction of the wage gap (I 239Tklmonth).Therefore, the study firmly concluded with the
recommendation that the wage (tklhr) of female worker should increase rationally for ensuring the equal
treatment of both male and female.
