{"id":72839,"date":"2025-07-11T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/11\/bangladesh-caretaker-government-sir-female-officials"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:28:38","slug":"bangladesh-caretaker-government-overturns-use-of-sir-to-address-female-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72839","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh caretaker government overturns use of \u2018sir\u2019 to address female officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protocol was \u2018clearly odd\u2019 relic of regime of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina, administration says in revision of directives<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s caretaker government has overturned a longstanding protocol requiring female officials to be addressed as \u201csir\u201d, calling it an \u201codd\u201d relic of the regime of the ousted leader, Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p>The interim administration, headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/muhammad-yunus-on-picking-up-the-pieces-in-bangladesh-after-monumental-damage-by-sheikh-hasinas-rule\">the Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus<\/a>, took office last year after the former prime minister was overthrown by a student-led uprising, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">forcing her to flee<\/a> to neighbouring India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/11\/bangladesh-caretaker-government-sir-female-officials\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protocol was \u2018clearly odd\u2019 relic of regime of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina, administration says in revision of directivesBangladesh\u2019s caretaker government has overturned a longstanding protocol requiring female officials to be addressed as \u201csir\u201d, callin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,3119,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-muhammad-yunus","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72839\/revisions\/72840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}