Pakistani/Indian culture is changing, girls are getting more empowerment in different walks of life(Lets assume, if this is not fact). Pakistani and overseas Pakistani girls taking their career seriously and getting higher positions in corporate and multi-national companies. Thus, they are making higher and handsome money(another assumption).
If they are independent, marriage should not be their important priority. A woman earning higher income than her to be husband may hurt male ego. Men in both cultures Eastern/Western are conservative, they are not willing to give the right status of women.
Lets discuss the problems in our culture.
Should they delay their marriages for the sake of career?
What would be moderate women role in working women household? (household chores and distribution among partners)
Can women survive without marriage? If yes, what was/is the real example you know?
In India, in majority of cases, it is family that decides whom a girl should marry, let alone be independent. In many of the middle classes, girls still go for arranged marriage where there approval is neccessity. Things have changed for good.
But Marriage is still not entirely women's choice, so this question, when they should marry seems redundant
Should they delay their marriages for the sake of career?
What would be moderate women role in working women household? (household chores and distribution among partners)
Can women survive without marriage? If yes, what was/is the real example you know?
I don't know if "delay marriage for the sake of career" is how I would phrase it but, personally, I think people should hold off on marriage until they have a stable career and are able to support themselves. If only one spouse is stable and has a career, what would happen if something happened and that spouse loses their job or becomes ill and cannot work?
In regards to how the household chores should be divided between spouses, I was raised to believe that everyone who lives in a house is responsible for the running and maintenance of that house. Naturally, as both spouses are living together, the household chores must be divided equally between spouses with allowances made in certain circumstances (ie. if one spouse gets home much earlier than the other, if one works weekends while the other doesn't, etc.).
As far as women surviving without marriage, I believe they can and I have seen one example of this in real life. She is a friend of my mum's whose husband passed away shortly after they got married (within a year or two I believe) and never remarried. She seems to be doing fine and she grew up during an era (the mid-1960s and 1970s) when not getting married wasn't viewed as a viable option even in the western world, so I don't think not getting married should really be such an issue in modern times. That said, although women can most definitely survive without marriage, I think that as humans we would all prefer to have some sort of companion throughout our lives, so I don't think there are very many people who will opt for foregoing marriage altogether.
Pakistan would've been a much better place today had Benezir delayed her marriage or at least should have waited for the right man to come along. She would not have just survived without marriage, she would've simply succeeded beyond expectations. The paradoxical tragedy of her life was that she had a huge network of support yet she was surrounded by terrible advisors.
If you are a woman as strong, able and ambitious as Benezir, then don't get married for sake of getting married.
