“Women’s Status & Role”

“It is the prime duty of men and women to acquire education”.

Their occupational choices are limited due to social and cult Not only this, but women are also denied of doing any job and earn ht facilities such as childcare, transport and accommodation in the formal sector of the constraints and inherent gender bias in the labour market. They also lack support predetermined notion of women’s primary role as homemakers. As a result labour market. Women’s labour power is considered inferior because of employer discrimination against female labour, their role is low paid, and lack potential upward mobility.

The health indicators of women in Pakistan are among the worst in the world. It is one of the few countries where women’s life expectancy is lower than that of men. Female infant mortality rate is higher (85 per 1000 live births) than that of male children (82 per 1000 live births). More than 40 per cent of the total female population are anaemic. The maternal mortality rate is still high, 1 women in every 38 dies from pregnancy-related caused. The low health status of women is the result of women’s lower social, economic and cultural status. Intro-household bias in food distribution leads to nutritional deficiencies among female children; early marriages of girls, excessive childbearing, lack of control over their own bodies and a high level of illiteracy adversely affect women’s health and intensify their disadvantaged health status.

In patriarchal Pakistani society, women are mere symbol of family honour and dignity. They are considered as private property. Prevailing feudal culture has on fined women to home to ‘save male honour and dignity’. Feudal lords complement their code of morality in the name of “tradition and custom”. Under such storms women have no control over their lives. They don’t have right to choice-marriage. Girl education is strongly discouraged and women tolerate oppressive ms in the name of morality.

Sward and Van are such type of heinous crimes that are deeply upheld by e stone-age minded people. In both of the customs, the minor girls are given as mpensation for the wrongdoing perpetrated by one of the members of the culprit amily on the aggrieved one. Girls as young as 10 years of age are married with 60 ears old man under such customs. Dowry system is another form of social and traditional practices. There is ardly any family in Pakistan in which this system is not followed. Not a single day sses without dowry deaths and torture of women. Newspapers are full of stories torture of women who bring insufficient dowry. Unable to bear the torture, some ides are forced to commit suicide. This practice of dowry does, in fact, violate amid Laws. In Islam it is the man who pays the “Me-hr” to the woman. Rather wry is the right of the woman. The Quran highlights: “And give women (on marriage) their dower as a free gift; but if they, of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you. Take it and enjoy it with right good cheer.” (An Nisa: 4) Along with it, there have also been high-profile incidents of violence again men, such alive burial. According to Dawn newspaper, the 2008 report enc against women in Pakistan makes horrific reading. In that year alone, of violence against women were reported in the media. What is shocking is e number of women who lost their lives in this period — 1,516 were curd 472 were killed for reasons of ‘honour’.