Lack of Education

The backwardness of the majority of the women is due to lack of education as well as to their economic dependence upon men. No doubt, the rich families educate their daughters highly. Many educated girls get employment as school mistresses, typists, stenographers, receptionists, secretaries, blocking and reservation clerks, business executives. Many become nurses, doctors, professors. They are economically independent and therefore socially independent too. But the number of such women is only a small fraction of the total number of Pakistani women.