Gender inequity

 Gender inequality has been a part of Pakistan ever since its existence, and one of the main causes is the low literacy rate, another reason would be Pakistani culture that disallow women to stand on equal position with men. We are living in the world which is developing on a day-to-day base with innovative discovery being made at frequent periods. People have made some living standards. Regardless of all these advancements, the primal knowledge that men are superior to women has set in our social structure.

Gender discrimination‘s concept starts from the day one is born. Gender is the factor for deciding of a name, “girls” names or “boys” names. Gender tells what playthings they will buy, dolls if they are having a baby girl and trucks if baby boys. And the list goes on and on.

One can easily find a number of gender stereotypes at home, at job and in relations. The number of women doing jobs in Pakistan has just increased but the old concept among masses is that a female should reside at home and not go out to earn, because with women working side by side with  men there is the problems of sexual harassment. Mostly, sexual harassment happenings are “merely irritating”.

In other state of affairs harassment may result into momentary or extended tension and/or sadness depending on the women’s mental abilities to manage and the type of harassment, and the societal support or no support at all for the recipient. Psychologists and communal personnel say  that harsh/constant sexual annoyance can have the same psychological effects as rape or sexual physical attack sufferers.

 The saddest part of the whole story is that media has spread understanding of political and violence related issue to the people but the area of social issues has been ignored badly. It is now the job  of media to make people aware of public issues as well so that we come out as a cultured and educated nation. If we talk about west, there are rules and regulations to uphold the issue of women bullying which are followed making no compromises. In Pakistan we too have acts passed for this issue but rules are being ignored and we just have put them aside so it is very disgraceful state for us. The 33% representation of women in upper house is a hopeful but the women should not put their responsibilities connected to government only, they should also go on in work on the women civil liberties specially women rights.