A Paradigm Shift in Women’s Movement and Gender Reforms in Pakistan (A Historical Overview)

Dr. Arab Naz, Muhammad Hussain, Umar Daraz, Waseem Khan, Tariq Khan, Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Asghar Khan

Volume 13 Issue 1

Global Journal of Human-Social Science

The current paper is a historical analysis of the women’s movement and gender reforms in Pakistan. The study is based upon secondary information following an evolutionary perspective with regard to social change and development. Library method as source of data collection has been used in the study particularly, the data used in the paper has been taken from a PhD dissertation in Anthropology, conducted in the year 2008-12 in the Department of Anthropology Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad under the scholarship scheme of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. Most of the information in the current study provides detail about gender and women’s reforms in Pakistan where the information have been describes in the form qualitative report. The paper concludes that women’s movement and gender reforms are the outcome of long historic process and such process are mostly obstructed by multiple factors including the conservative forces. Besides, such challenges, there is always the possibility of change and development as clear from the gender reforms in Pakistan.