Women In Pakistan

In today’s society, women face oppression in all different areas of the world. For most of the women who are raped, have their female genitals mutilated, beaten or mistreated in any other kind of way, there is no one there to help them. Some of these male dominated areas of the world include Somalia, Afghanistan, Mexico, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Egypt… The list goes on for all of the unsafe and inhumane areas for women. By the end of this paper, I would hope the reader truly empathizes and understands that we need to stop female brutality and put an end to male dominated societies and have equality for both sexes. An article I read from trust.org explained in further detail on how dangerous and heartbreaking it is to

One other part of the world that is ridiculously dangerous to be a female is the country of Pakistan. A 2011 poll from Thomson Reuters Foundation Poll found that Pakistan is the third most dangerous country in the world to be a woman. There are over 1,000 documented honor killings involved with women and children. And there is a shocking 90% of women and female children that undergo domestic violence. Many reasons why women do not try to put an end to the violence in their lives if because there’s not much that they can do in a male dominated society. Many, if not most women, fear their husbands, are afraid of attracting unwanted attention to themselves, do not want to hurt their family’s reputation or “honor”, or they really just don 't know that help is available to them. According to TheAtlantic.com, only 36% of women in Pakistan are literate. Most of these helpless women are far too uneducated and held down by their male counterparts to know their

One young woman that caught my eye was a girl named Ayesha, age 18. Ayesha goes on about her life as a young girl to the strong woman she has come to grow to today. From this young woman’s testimony, I can tell that a woman to a man in that country or any other country like it, is just a piece of meat. They are not treated like the human beings that they should be and are not respected. Ayesha shared the story of when she was raped by a boy who was a few years older than her when she was just 10 years old. She went on to explain that he basically ruined her and any chance of getting married later on in life. As for him? He apologized indirectly to her and is now living a happy life with his wife. But that’s not the worst of what has happened to Ayesha. She was kind enough to unravel the horrors that went on when she was a young girl living with her parents. Once her father began to drink, smoke cigarettes, and do other harmful and mind altering drugs, he began to sexually abuse her. She would try to act as if she was asleep and turn the other way when he touched her and took advantage of her but could feel everything he did. The worst part about this story is that she was so used to the sexual abuse that it didn 't bug her after awhile. One quote that would disturb any reader was "He had no mercy, not even