Tag: Gender

The Pakistani woman

In a male dominated society like ours equal economic opportunities for women mostly remains a distant dream. Women in Pakistan are also denied their due...

Girls made to attend boys schools in KP

By: MOHAMMAD ASHFAQ PESHAWAR: Every fourth girl student of those enrolled in government schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is compelled to get education at primary level...

Divorced for bearing third daughter

FAISALABAD: A woman was divorced on Sunday shortly after she returned home after giving birth to a baby girl. This was her third daughter. Ghulam...

Getting rid of gender bias

PAKISTAN’S second-last standing on the list of 136 countries surveyed for gender gap is embarrassing, as well as alarming. The problems women encounter in the...

Women in our society

THE news on Friday of sexual abuse and murder of a 13-year-old schoolgirl in Karachi was yet another horrifying episode in the process of improving...