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CONCEPTUALIZING PAKISTANI WOMENS EMANCIPATION DURING MUSHARRAF ERA 19992008

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).19      10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).19      Published : Mar 2021

Conceptualizing Pakistani Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008)

Abstract

    The paper analysis and conceptualizing the status and emancipation of women in Pakistan during the Musharraf era. In Pakistan's context, the position of women is a foundational gender disparity even though the reality is that it differs impressively across classes, zones and the rural/urban disparity because of uneven socio-economic growth and the influence of innate, primitive and entrepreneur societal arrangements on the women lives. The study concluded that Pakistani women nowadays, although they escalate a higher status than before. Moreover, women in Pakistan have attained high positions, including Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Assembly, Foreign Minister, and federal ministers also, judges and officers in the military.

    Women, Theorizing, Pakistan, Society, Education, Politics

    (1) Shazia Noareen
    PhD Scholar, Department of History & Pakistan Studies, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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