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The document summarizes the status of women's rights in Pakistan. It notes that women are considered subordinate to men and are responsible for family reputation. Their mobility is limited. Women live under constraints of veiling and are expected to serve in the home. Abuse, violence, and discrimination against women are widely tolerated. While women theoretically have rights to freedom of speech, vote, religion, and freedom from torture, the reality is different. The document outlines some major rights for women such as education, workforce rights, and government participation, but notes regional differences and challenges to fully realizing these rights.

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Presented By:-Naqash Ahmed

The document summarizes the status of women's rights in Pakistan. It notes that women are considered subordinate to men and are responsible for family reputation. Their mobility is limited. Women live under constraints of veiling and are expected to serve in the home. Abuse, violence, and discrimination against women are widely tolerated. While women theoretically have rights to freedom of speech, vote, religion, and freedom from torture, the reality is different. The document outlines some major rights for women such as education, workforce rights, and government participation, but notes regional differences and challenges to fully realizing these rights.

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Presented By:-

Naqash Ahmed
Introduction
• The status of women in Pakistan varies
considerably across classes, regions, and the
rural/urban divide due to uneven
socioeconomic development and the impact
of tribal, feudal, and capitalist social
formations on women's lives
• Pakistani 
women are considered subordinate to men.
• A women’s actions are held responsible for
the reputation of the family.
• Women are allowed only limited mobility and
contact with the opposite sex so they do not
dishonor their families.
• Women live under the constraints of veiling.
• Women spend most of their lives in their
homes and can only go out for serious and
approved reasons.
• Pakistani regards women as "born to serve"
- Abuse violence and discrimination
against women are widely tolerated and
systematic.

- The issues with women’s rights are still


being ignored and remain as a ‘social
epidemic’.

- Many governments turn a blind eye


towards the increasing problems with
the discrimination and violence
against women

- Abused victims of rape, unfair


treatments in the workplace,
domestic violence etc., have got
no one to turn to
Women in the 21st Century are
thought to
have the right of
Freedom of Speech Freedom from Fear

Freedom to Vote
Freedom from Torture

Freedom of Choice

Freedom from enslavement

Freedom of Religion
Some major rights of women in Pakistan

• Education
• Removal of regional Differences
• Workforce Rights
• Government Rights
Education
• The literacy rate of females in Pakistan is at
39.6 percent compared to that of males at
67.7 percent. The objectives of education
policies in Pakistan aim to achieve equality in
education between girls and boys and to
reduce the gender gap in the educational
system.
Conti’d...…
• The lack of democracy and feudal practices of
Pakistan also contribute to the gender gap in
the educational system.
Removal of Regional Differences
• Women in elite urban districts of Pakistan
enjoy a far more privileged lifestyle and
opportunities for education than those living
in rural tribal areas.
• Rural and tribal areas of Pakistan have an
increasingly high rate of poverty and low
literacy rates.
Conti,d…….
• Girls living in rural areas are encouraged not
to go to school because they are needed in
the home
• In most rural villages, secondary schooling
simply does not exist for girls, leaving them no
choice but to prepare for marriage and do
household tasks to do work at a young age.
Workforce Right
• In 2008 it was recorded that 21.8 percent of
females were participating in the labor force
in Pakistan while 82.7 percent of men were
involved in labor.
• The rate of women in the labor force has an
annual growth rate of 6.5 percent.
• Out of the 47 million employed peoples in
Pakistan in 2008, only 9 million were women
and of those 9 million, 70 percent worked in
the agriculture sector.
• The income of Pakistani women in the labor
force is generally lower than that of men, due
in part by a lack of formal education.
Government
• Pakistan’s constitution places no constraints
on female participation in government, more
than 50% MPs are women and law enforces
that women must have equal opportunity in
Parliament.
• Govt also has passed the bills that support the
rights of women.
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