Current issues in Pakistan..... current gender issues in Pakistan.... Gender inequality... Strategies to improve gender issues...

1. Gender issues in Pakistan
According to the provincial results of the 6 th Population and Housing
Census conducted in 2017, there are 106 ,449, 322 men,101,314 ,780
women and 104,418 transgenders.By percentage men form 51%,
women 48.76% and transgenders 0.24% of the total population of
Pakistan.

2. Women suffer from persvasive gender based violence; from
domestic abuse, honour killings, sexual violence to institutional
discrimination.There is a widespread lack of consistent access to
quality family planning services in Pakistan ,resulting in one of the
highest unmet needs in Asia.
Pakistani women are more than half of the total population,but
women are treated inhumanly within their homes by their husbands or
dominant males through different ways like ; domestic
violence,Sawara,Vani,Karo Kari, Honour killing,Acid throwing,Forced
marriages etc.

3. Women in Pakistan also face other barriers related to general norms
when entering the labour market such as lack of access to safe
transportation,lack of female facilities in the workplace and time
concentraints due to household responsibility.

4. Gender inequality in Education:
Pakistan’s entire education system has a 13% gender disparity in
enrollment. In addition,just 46.5% of women are literate, 61.6%
attended primary school, 34.2% attained high school and 8.3 percent
attended tertiary education.
In Pakistan there is a substantial gender disparity in education.Pakistan
is a patriarchal society in which women face a wide range of
discrimination, leading to a low social ,economic and political status of
Pakistan.

5. Cause and contributing factors responsible for gender disparity in
education in Pakistan:
The significant factors for the increased gender disparity
within Pakistan are the; parental unequal treatment towards the
different genders of their children,girls and boys under normal routine.
Furthermore,societal aspirations can also be stated as the leading
cause of gender disparity.

6. Some of the challenges that have been identified which impede girls access
to education are ;
• Lack of hygiene facilities
• Lack of transport
• Poverty
• Wrong religious perceptions
• Gender discrimination
• Early marriages
• Lack of education infrastructure
• Absence of safe environments
• Physical disabilities

7. Strategies for improving girl child education:
• The government must launch awareness initiatives
in rural areas.
• Awareness must be spread to uneducated families
who don’t understand the value of education.
• Provide incentives to families to encourage them to
send their daughters to school .

9. Status of girls education in Pakistan:
Pakistan has made significant progress for girls education in the last
decade ,but 12 million girls are still out of school,with only 13% of girls
reaching grade nine.