Women fall behind as Gen Z men rule Bangladesh's digital square

Across the room, his younger sister Nabila scrolls quietly through Instagram. She rarely posts. “If I put up a photo, I get comments I don’t want,” she says, shutting the app with a sigh. “It’s easier to stay invisible.” Their digital habits mirror a national reality. In Bangladesh’s online public square, men outnumber women nearly two to one. And among those men, it’s Generation Z – the youngest and most restless cohort – who are calling the shots. Fresh figures from NapoleonCat, a Poland-based analytics platform, reveal just how skewed the landscape is. As of August 2025, men made up 63.2 per cent of Facebook users in Bangladesh, compared to 36.8 per cent women. On Messenger, the split is almost...