The Status of Women in Pakistan

The present is an age of equality between the sexes. In the west, women have already nearly achieved this goal. Countries of the East, however, are still to accord to women the same status and she same rights that men enjoy. In the east, Pakistan leads the other countries in this respect. In Pakistan women theoretically enjoy almost the same rights as men, but in actual practice this equality does not exist. The enlightened sections of the population in Pakistan do certainly recognize in actual practice the right of women to equality with men, but among the poor the illiterate people, who form the majority, this right is neither being systematically and emphatically demanded by the women nor bring voluntarily conceded by the men.div>