Women & Words: Female Literacy in Sindh

With the country's population of 51% women, more than half of the Pakistanis are actually females. The lack of literacy in more than half the population of the country; and the gender which is required to keep the generations alive and nurture them is illiterate- means only one thing for entire nation- 'destruction.'

What is more destructive than the fairer sex, the gender required to nourish a family, birth a heir, carry on a generation and nurture the individuals- remain uneducated and unaware of her very own existences- her very own rights. Such is the scenario in Pakistan, especially in Sindh. Women are hardly educated. They are highly discouraged to study by male counterparts. There is only one question and alot of answers.

The question remains: WHY?

Why would you let your son study while your daughter await? Why does an independent husband never let go of dependence from his wife? Why do males still dominate; infact control women more in our state when rest of the world is on the verge of feminism and modernism movements.

 The world has discovered quantum physics and a typical male in rural Sindh is confused whether to send his daughter to primary school or not? There is further education as doctoral research for Ph.Ds in the world, and here they consider 'middle pass' the ultimate and absolute education?

And then we consider and we ask again and again. We ask repeatedly, "why are where are we lagging behind?' We are lagging behind in the vision. We are lagging behind in the idea and inspiration. We have been brainwashed by our very own selves to even entertain such ideas that female education has been discouraged by our religion and it is unislamic for a female to study. 

She may be brilliant, she may be a star. She may be good at mathematics or may be at art. She might be a born discoverer or a learned writer. She may have heaps of creativity or bounds of genius. But she is bound to be a 'housewife', to cook and clean and to reproduce heirs. She is bound to be the obedient and physically abused wife of a dictator- For such is the fate of a girl child born in rural Sindh.