What the social elites of Pakistan do for uplifting the status of women in Pakistan?
Women in Pakistan suffer widespread human rights violations.
It is always difficult to prosecute law enforcement personnel who have raped women in their custody. The law under which a victim of rape may herself be punished is the Zina Ordinance which punishes sexual offences.
Women in Pakistan are disadvantaged from the moment they are born.
Eight women are raped every day on average in Pakistan, according to 1993 estimates by the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
Women are usually married off by their families, in a transaction in which the “bride-price” is negotiated by the two families. The woman is then considered and treated as the property of her husband and may not defy him.
Domestic violence against women is widespread and rarely brought to public notice or punished unless the woman dies or suffers gruesome injuries.
Women who are bonded labourers are completely at the mercy of their masters. They suffer rape and gross ill-treatment of every sort…
Oppression of women in Pakistan
In countries like Pakistan, the level of exploitation and suffering is much more higher compared to other countries because of the backwardness of the society, prejudices in the culture and distorted infrastructure.
In Pakistan:
Out of 131 million population, 48% are women.
Psychologically, people don’t feel happy at the birth of baby girl.
Women literacy rate is 1.8%
135,000 women die every year at child birth due to insufficient hospitals and health care facilities.
Insecurity at workplace is rife.
Women representation in the Parliament is negligible.
They are deprived of basic human rights, facing hikes of exploitation including sexual harassment.
Women in Pakistan need to be organised on class line, because they are facing different social problems, like price hikes, severe unemployment insecurity, looting, poverty.
They are facing discrimination by religious leaders, who always put obstacles in front of them, halting from doing work, getting education and playing any part in the social development of the society.
The poor women are working as domestics, in brick-lin industry, in construction work, especially building roads, in cotton, rice and wheat fields, in textile and garments manufacturing industries, working 10 to 12 hours a day getting less than half wages than that of men…