• Goretti Nipar Shahu

This paper explores the opportunities and rights of women experienced, portrayed and also the similarities with especial reference to Virginia Woolf and Begum Rokeya. The writers through their works sail to explore a new region of women’s rights. In this study both the primary and secondary sources are used. Virginia Wolf and Begum Rokeya belong to a different culture but in their writings we see similarities of discrimination faced by women. Both of their writings highlighted on women’s education and financial freedom and equality. Women writers have been vocal against the gender inequity and they expressed it through literature. Till today we see women do face the challenges and pressure in the society. Throughout their writings Virginia Wolf and Begum Rokeya uttered their personal opinion on women’s self discovery, individuality, significance and roles in the society in the form of literature. It is not easy for a woman to establish her values in a male dominated society.

Virginia Wolf, Begum Rokeya, Women, Gender, Challenges, Discrimination, English Literature, Bangladeshi Literature.

"A Comparative Study of English Women Writers and Bangladeshi women Writers in 20th Century: Virginia Woolf and Begum Rokeya", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.f75-f82, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211511.pdf

"A Comparative Study of English Women Writers and Bangladeshi women Writers in 20th Century: Virginia Woolf and Begum Rokeya", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. ppf75-f82, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211511.pdf