Bangladesh’s online trade sees in a rise in women entrepreneurs

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The country was now flooded with Alibaba, Daraz, Ajker Deal, Pickaboo and other e-commerce sites, reports New Age. The interest of women in online trade was growing and online fashion houses, jewellery houses and other daily products were seeing a boom. These female entrepreneurs worked from home and connected to buyers over phone or messages. They were taking their business forward only by using social network site Facebook. Currently, there were nearly 3,000 Facebook pages which were listed with the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services and 700 pages of the pages were owned by women entrepreneurs. The advantage of Facebook pages or groups (f-commerce) was that the business needed small capital or even no capital. According to data, there were 8,000 Facebook pages half of which were being run by the female entrepreneurs. The scenario had changed slowly but significantly. Women in the country were entering the sector alongside readymade garments, microcredit, medicare, teaching, research, banking and other sectors.