Women Education Pakistan: Causes Of Women Illiteracy Man is
composed of two basic elements i.e nature and nurture. In
upbringing process, parents have a major participation in which
mother offers an ample share. Thus an educated mother will lay
the foundation of healthy civilized family. So we can say that
the entire personality of a person is an outcome of his mother’s
training. The constitution of Pakistan provides full
participation of women in all spheres of life constituting more
than 50% of the total population, but the literacy rate in
females is just 36% as compared to men that is 64%. The ratio of
primary schools for girls and boys is 4 and 10 respectively.Such
attitude of discrimination is not new in the educational system
of Pakistan. Pakistan inherited it from the history. After 1857
when Sir Syed came on the surface with the slogan of educational
improvement of the muslims but the women were ignored. At that
time books like “Bahishti Zaiwar”, “Miratul Uroos” popped up to
identify the limits for t