State of Gender Disparities in Pakistan
Journal Title: International Journal of Management Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 12
Abstract
Gender disparity, in general, refers to the gap indicated by differential preferences between males and females in any field of life. Pakistan is no exception to the generally abysmal state of gender equality the world over. About 50 per cent of Pakistani girls drop out of school and our literacy rate for women is amongst the lowest in the world. As of 2005 only 16 per cent of Pakistani women were reported as economically active while a 1996 study by the women’s division of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan showed that domestic violence takes place in about 80 per cent of Pakistani households. Although women’s inferior status to men exists in all strata of Pakistani society, the reasons and manifestations of the inequality differ quite substantially as we move from one socio-economic class and region to another. Economic discrimination is a core issue in women’s battle for equality in the developed world, although that is not to say that women there face no other problems. Gender disparities have endured here, and women still comprise two-thirds of all the illiterate people in the world.
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