Daulatida Research Paper

Introduction

In the developing world, specifically Muslim nations, women are viewed as lesser and unequal to men, resulting in the mistreatment and objectification of women within the society. Known for underage prostitution, drug abuse and sex trafficking of abducted and abused women and children is the town Daulatida in the Rajbari District, Bangladesh. Daulatida is the largest brothel in the world with 1,3001 known sex workers including the underage girls who are working illegally in prostitution, that service 30002 customers who pass through its streets every day. Daulatida was opened and founded by the British during their colonial rule decades ago and has been perpetrated by the third-generation sex workers that descend from the

Since the colonial rule, the hierarchy of power between the men and women of Dalatuida has been in place in order for society to function as a whole (structural functionalism), resulting in inequality within the patriarchal society and the power struggle between the statuses (conflict theory). Men typically have a higher status than women in Daulatida's patriarchal society, this was put in place by men to control the women by creating unfair societal roles and choosing their status in society. Men hold their own status in the society without the link to their profession and family, in which they can abuse, neglect, rape and murder the women without being ridiculed or imprisoned for their actions. In Daulatida the average age of consent is 14, but many of the sex trafficked prostitutes are younger and are being sold for $3005 CAD, in which is the debt they are forced to repay to the pimps and madams of the brothel. This displays the Functional theory; the hierarchy of power is used by Daulatida's society to control and keep the women in sexual slavery serving a function to the high-powered men in society. The women struggle for their rights in Daulatida within the walls of the brothel who owns and perpetually objectifies the women they imprison. The women compete for power with the Madam and other prostitutes for work, the madam owns the women in which she abuses physically and mentally for the money she receives from the raping of the women. This displays Conflict theory, the lower stauts women competes for power with the other sex workers to achieve a higher power in society while the women of Daulatida faces a power struggle with the men who own and abuse their bodies. The madams and pimps, hold a special ideology in which is gained from the years of experience as working as a prostitute and a slave master, they believe that women are objects, in which are