Why Bangladesh’s divorce rate is rising

There’s no telling where it could lead

I T WAS WHEN Nasrin Khaleque got a job that she realised her marriage “was not normal”. None of her female colleagues seemed to have husbands who checked to see what they were up to ten times a day, or who objected if they went out for coffee after work. She told her husband she wanted a divorce. “I realised I didn’t have to put up with it,” she says.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Getting out of the house”

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