Since her childhood days, Ayesha Siddiqua has watched absolute male dominance in solemnising Muslim marriages. She always nurtured the dream of breaking into the men’s domain by becoming a female Kazi in Bangladesh.

A native of Dinajpur’s Fulbari, she took a leap of faith and applied for the position of Nikah or marriage registrar. But she was turned down for being a woman. Undeterred, she mounted a legal challenge against religious gender discrimination to earn her right to become a Kazi in 2014.

A High Court ruling now stands between Ayesha and her dream but she is determined to continue her uphill battle for women's empowerment.

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