Q. Write a note on status of women’s studies in Pakistan and give your views on the autonomy/integration debate in Women’s Studies. (CSS-2016)
Women were a big portion of population around the globe and they had been deprived of economic and social development. As a weaker or second sex, the woman had been kept away from the main stream objectives in societies.
In Pakistan, women access to property, education and employment remained lower than men because Pakistani society was predominantly patriarchal and here women participation in society was low in percentage.
Despite improvement in Pakistan’s literacy rate, educational status of Pakistani women was the lowest in the world. The literacy rate of urban women was five times higher than that of rural women.
The emerging changes are the women studies considered the way that describes the status in the same manner in Pakistan and it is being represented by the whole world. The biggest approach of Women in Development approach is the ways that endorse the women studies and even the literature required for the reduction of gaps between social outcomes in both sex. The roles or responsibilities required at women and men perspective is being presented by the material required for the effective material diversification in Pakistan.