Women the sub-ordinates, the
poor, the weaker, the timid and the vulnerable minority… The minority who shares
60% cake of total population of Pakistan, are still worthless. The country who
does not value these tiny, less privileged group, is known as castle of Islam. A
castle that cannot protect his 60% population. Social construction of
inferiority has led the way towards women activism as an outcome of severe
oppression. Statistics of sustainable development showed that 43% people of
Pakistan are living in vicious circle of poverty; then question arises regarding
parameter of poverty? Although poverty measures by the government are still
fruitless, state is trying optimally for poverty reduction through the given
parameters of millennium development goals that is poverty free world for all.
Undoubtedly, wrong scales and cultural differences served as a free poverty for
all manifesto. Overall poverty situation is digestible, but how it affects
oppressed minority is weirder. Harassment rate is multiplied; more the less, to
make rape incidents publically is another question mark on women dignity.
In male dominated society women are exploited at many levels from domestic to
workplace. Sometimes those who are keen advocates of human rights follow duel
policy. Their contradiction in words and deeds, like much discussion about women
emancipation with little results, sexual harassment, unnecessary restrictions:
these sensitive issues are widely discussed on various platforms without
practical implementation.
Men are licentious in the name of religion to exploit women. Terrorist
organizations are also anti women that condemn co-education; as some leading
women welfare organizations are under terrorists’ threats. Cultural values
suggest reverence for women being a mother sister and daughter only. Hidden
curriculum is involved in this mass gender segregation, in the same lines
department of gender study in a famous university of Karachi is still named as
women studies department. Being a sociologist, only hope or mere illusion is a
way to live a peaceful life.