Dhaka, May 14 -- Some years back, while still teaching business communication at Dhaka University, I had the chance to address a hall filled with young graduates on their way to the professional world.

At the event, several things struck me as odd.

While it has always been a tradition in Bangladesh to seek advice from seniors within the family and outside about education, career and other life related issues, the impracticality of the advice parted by some experts invited to speak at the event was hard to ignore.

Anyway, while reading a recent news article about three visiting Nepalese female journalists to Bangladesh, memories of the career address came back.

The visiting women journalists had an interaction with local counterparts f...