Essays about: "pakistani women"

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1. 1. Challenges in women's access to higher education in Pakistan

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Saima Laiqat; [2022-11-25]
   Keywords : Higher Education; Women education in Pakistan; Barriers and Challenges to women education in Pakistan; Women access to higher education;

   Abstract : Aim: Women in Pakistan face many obstacles, challenges, and gender stereotypes in their educational journey. Therefore, the goal of this research is threefold: to examine the factors that female HE students identify as obstacles and hurdles they have had to overcome to establish themselves in HE; to examine what enables some women to overcome them and successfully establish themselves as HE students; and last to address what gender stereotypes female students in HE have encountered in their educational journey and how they have dealt with them. READ MORE

3. 2. The economic and social conditions of Pakistani Basmati Rice Farmers

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Rural Development and Agroecology

   Author : Sofia Valter; [2020]
   Keywords : food security; household; income; livelihood; Pakistan; Punjab; small scale farmer;

   Abstract : In most developing countries the lack of resources, high costs, and limited diversified income sources are among the major factors that affect small-scale farming households' ability to earn an income, reproduce and be food secure. By using a strategy of income diversification and the use of cash crops in agricultural production can be a resourceful way for a sustainable livelihood and a reduced risk of income variability for small-scale farmers. READ MORE

4. 3. Female agency in Burnt Shadows and Postcolonial Feminism in the EFL Classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Vanja Floryd; [2019]
   Keywords : Burnt Shadows; Kamila Shamsie; postcolonialism; feminism; literature; women; agency; EFL; upper secondary school;

   Abstract : This essay analyses Burnt Shadows (2009) by Kamila Shamsie from a postcolonial feminist perspective, with a focus on agency of women, representation and re-presentation, and cultural stereotypes. The degree of agency in the main characters Hiroko, Elizabeth and Kim is discussed, followed by an analysis of the re-presentation of Indian, Pakistani and Arab Muslim women characters in the text, with a focus on homogenisation and voice. READ MORE

5. 4. From avengers to heroines: muslim*women dismantling hegemonic discourses

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Gina Waibel; [2016]
   Keywords : Queer theory; postcolonial theory; Muslim; women; racism; nationalism; gender; Europe; discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Hegemonic European discourses about muslim*women reduce the complex living realities of muslim*women to the singular of the gendered and racialized other. This thesis investigates the hegemonic functioning of these discourses and explores postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches for dismantling it. READ MORE

6. 5. Recipe Of Crucibles : The major antecedents that contributes in shaping the crucibles of Pakistani women to become a successful leader

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Tazeen Zehra Naqvi; [2015]
   Keywords : antecedents; crucibles; leadership; patriarchy; glass ceiling; female of Pakistan; gender role differentiation; religious dogma; family; society; education; principles.;

   Abstract : Successful leadership is the dream of all the students of leadership for which various elements including personality, skills, vision etc. are mentioned by various scholars and researchers, but what is interesting to acknowledge is that all these elements are a manifest of the moment that alter the identity of an ordinary person into a successful leader. READ MORE