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Choosing to challenge gender inequality in Pakistan


Choosing to challenge gender inequality in Pakistan
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Gender inequality makes its mark early on in life in Pakistan. 
We girls wore different clothes to the boys, I was sent to a girls’ school while my brother was sent to a boys’ schools. Although I did not like it, I was told this is the way the world was, and girls and boys have to go to separate institutions.
When I was a young woman commuting for work on public transport, I faced daily sexual harassment. 
At the start of my career, in the 1980s, I worked in women’s rights organisations. I joined Women’s Action Forum – an independent forum fighting for women’s rights that started during Zia-ul-Haq’s regime to fight against the repressive laws against women; I also volunteered with War Against Rape in Lahore in 1992 as well as the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. In the 1997-98, I also had the opportunity to manage a UNDP project facilitating women’s mobility in urban Lahore. We b ....

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eminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
This is a definition taken from a Beyonce music video. It’s a definition Beyonce took from a TED talk by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This daisy-chain handing over of meaning feels poignant. Feminism is supposed to be Prometheus-like, it’s supposed to be about sharing light and warmth and knowledge. But for this knowledge to be shared, it must first be archived and preserved. Yet, feminist movements have been systematically excluded from Pakistani history and there is a marked lack of accessible archives which delineate the struggles of the women’s rights movement in Pakistan. To forget this history amounts to aligning ourselves with a patriarchal system constantly seeking to erase it; as post-colonial scholar Lisa Lowe frames it, forgetting is an act of political violence. ....

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