Before Islam women had no standing in Arabia. Islam gave them protection and legal rights polygamy was a common practice among the Arabs birth of daughter was considered shameful and they were buried alive. Hence there was no respect for women hood, than Islam came and changes the fate of women hood.
Pakistan is a country which was created in the name of Islam and in Pakistan women have got the protection and the legal rights which Islam has given them and and Pakistan also in response anticipates them to respond positively by obeying the limits prescribed by Islam.
One can distribute Pakistani women into two. That is urban and rural. A clear dividing line can be a drawn urban and rural woman of Pakistan.
First I will highlight the urban women of Pakistan. One can say that they are the charms of universities and co-education institutions. Urban women have become a little bit modern when compared to rural women. Many factors have played role to make them modern. The most important of them being better education, better living standard and approach to the media.
These are the women who are competing men. Urban women of Pakistan are excelling in every field now, they know how to get their rights and also how to fight for their rights. Now many of them are holding executive jobs and on many levels they are doing better than men.
At the same time they are shy and modest. A lot of them are still housewives who are masters of their homes destiny.
Now I come to the rural women. The majority of Pakistani women reside in villages, as most of the Pakistani population comprises of population of rural areas. Rural women are mostly illiterate and conservative. They are housewives and also share the work of men folk in simple terms one wants to explain the rural women of Pakistan than you can explain them in three words shy, modest and meek.
The light of education is denied to them, not because the men do not want them to study but because of the horrible fact that Pakistan is a third world country and approximately only 30% of its population is educated and these 30%only exist in cities and they are not found in villages thus the men as well as the women are denied of education.
These are very hard working women they work all day long not only in homes but also in fields helping their men (as Pakistan is a agricultural country) I am sure that if these women are provided with better educational and other facilities they will excel a lot.
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