Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan
Education may transform everyone's life, regardless of gender. Gender bias remains widespread. Pakistan's rural areas are especially bad. Pakistani women have been exploited since independence. Pakistani women rarely receive constitutional rights. Discrimination against women in the job, school, economy, and politics predates the 20th century. 200 teachers and 200 students from around Pakistan were selected for a good sample. A typical questionnaire assessed the girls' school backgrounds, objectives, and gender equality beliefs. At the schools examined men and women had very different educational opportunities. Lack of resources, social pressures, and discriminatory laws and practices make it tougher for girls to receive an education, according to research. The report concludes that broad governmental action to close the gender education gap is important. It offers gender-sensitive classrooms and community-building projects.
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Gender Disparities, Education, Empowering Girls
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(1) Chaudhry Ibrahim Tahir Farooq
Independent Researcher, Aitchison College Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Haider Nafees Ahmed
Independent Researcher, Kaizen High Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Mohammed Nawab Shinwari
Senior Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Shaikh Zayed University, Khost, Afghanistan.
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APA : Farooq, C. I. T., Ahmed, H. N., & Shinwari, M. N. (2023). Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, VIII(II), 390-396. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-II).35
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CHICAGO : Farooq, Chaudhry Ibrahim Tahir, Haider Nafees Ahmed, and Mohammed Nawab Shinwari. 2023. "Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, VIII (II): 390-396 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-II).35
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HARVARD : FAROOQ, C. I. T., AHMED, H. N. & SHINWARI, M. N. 2023. Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, VIII, 390-396.
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MHRA : Farooq, Chaudhry Ibrahim Tahir, Haider Nafees Ahmed, and Mohammed Nawab Shinwari. 2023. "Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, VIII: 390-396
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MLA : Farooq, Chaudhry Ibrahim Tahir, Haider Nafees Ahmed, and Mohammed Nawab Shinwari. "Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, VIII.II (2023): 390-396 Print.
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OXFORD : Farooq, Chaudhry Ibrahim Tahir, Ahmed, Haider Nafees, and Shinwari, Mohammed Nawab (2023), "Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan", Global Social Sciences Review, VIII (II), 390-396
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TURABIAN : Farooq, Chaudhry Ibrahim Tahir, Haider Nafees Ahmed, and Mohammed Nawab Shinwari. "Addressing Gender Disparities in Education: Empowering Girls through Education in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review VIII, no. II (2023): 390-396. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-II).35