Discrimination Against Women in Pakistani Society

Discrimination against Women in Pakistani Society International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on eight March every year. The primary purpose of its observance is to honor women’s rights worldwide. This year, I got a chance to witness one of the celebrations organized by The Aga Khan University Working Group for Women (WGW) to celebrate IWD. On the one hand, seeing the contributions of women to our society, I felt privileged to be a woman. On the other hand, I was distressed thinking of the discrimination faced by women in their daily lives. Discrimination against women is one of the types of gender discrimination. Gender discrimination means judging someone primarily on the basis of his or her sex. According to Khan (2012),†¦show more content†¦As mentioned earlier, discrimination against girls starts at domestic level, thus it gets its roots strengthened in the very beginning of girls childhood due to parental behavior. When toys for the babies are bought: guns, vehicles and strength showing items are cons idered for baby boys. Besides, when they turn older, they are allowed to visit their friends, play and roam outside, and be autonomous. This develops the idea in their minds that boys are born brave and they can decide for themselves. On the contrary, dolls, household items like cooking utensils and innocence depicting things are being bought for girls. This treatment makes them feel that girls are born delicate and their primary duty is to do household chores like cooking. In addition, parents put the thought in their daughters mind that being a girl she should be hospitable, compromising and tolerant, following restrictions like wearing culturally appropriate clothing and are limited to the boundaries of home (Ali et al., 2011). However, no such restrictions are faced by boys. They wear according to their own choice and are not home bound, as well. 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