Female Education
Pakistan & Gulf Economist 2010, Oct 31, 29, 43
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Byline: SHAMSUL GHANI Pakistan's failure, spanning over 63 years of existence, to use education as a nation building tool has landed us in the ongoing crises on economic, social and security fronts. One of the basic reasons for this turmoil is our lack of confidence in women folk as a character building institution. We live under the false premise that we belong to a male dominated society and, therefore, female education is almost a non-issue. Nicolas de Condorcet, an eighteenth century French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist is known as a great proponent of free and equal public education. Amartya Sen writes in his book The Idea of Justice:
Uneducated and Unhealthy: The Plight of Women in Pakistan.
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