Gender Discrimination: Implications for Pakistan Security

Abstract

Gender discrimination is a non-tradition threat to Pakistan and it has implications for Pakistan security. Pakistani women are more than half of the total population, but women are treated inhumanly within their homes by their husbands or dominant males through different ways like Domestic Violence, Sawara, Vani, Karo Kari, Honour Killing, Acid Throwing, Forced Marriages etc. Gender discrimination is also deeply rooted in Pakistani society in education and employment sectors. The of a state like Pakistan is connected with the of whole population and a country cannot be considered secure until its whole population feel secure. For the progress and prosperity of a country there is needed to eliminate the discriminatory attitude of the society towards the women. There are multiple ways to improve balance in the country which will reduce This study discusses discrimination as non-traditional security threat to the country. It argues that women are more than half of the population and the of women is associated with state security. This is so because no country can be secure until its whole population feels secure. Pakistan needs to empower its women for the progress and prosperity of a country. Balance has been maintained by the nature in all things of the world in order to decorate it with exquisiteness, and it produced a feature that sustains balance in each and every thing. These harmonizing features vary in the ratio that provides to support their accompaniment. In this perspective men and women are well thought-out as the supporting complement for each other, but the main clash in this logic maintain is the term discrimination. The term discrimination refers to unequal behavior able to improve or limit a situation. Normally it is harmful because groups are treated unfairly based on prejudice(s). Discrimination is a rejection process of the other, emphasizing on gender, race, sex, age (children, adolescents, elder), social and marital status, class and caste belonging, political and institutional discrimination (governments, aid agency, spenders), migrant or refugee status, religion, incapacity, handicap (disability, illness, HIV-status) etc. While Gender discrimination refers to different treatment based on sex, including different connotations of values that change with cultural context. It is the most common and longstanding discrimination, and it is triggered by other discriminative behaviors. Gender discrimination is loftily based on stereotype of a fastidious culture, i.e. that considers males physically powerful and consider females as psychologically sensitive or weak. Due to this term gender is often clashes with the term sex. Both terms are used as interchangeably in a common perspective, but there has been a scientific dissimilarity among both. Sex is genetic differentiation of persons; classify them as men and women, this distinction of persons is similar in all the cultures of world, whereas gender is a societal delineation of persons which classify them as male and female. This distinction verifies the function of persons in a fastidious culture. The responsibility of persons in diverse culture is dissimilar and thus the responsibility of is changeable in accordance with the existing societal setup. Gender discrimination defines the practice of granting or denying rights or privileges to a person(s) based on their gender. In some societies, this practice is ancient and satisfactory to both genders. Few religious groups hold discrimination as part of their dogma. However, in most developed countries, it is either unlawful or generally considered unsuitable. The discrimination approach can generally be found in the heredity of certain section of society. Much of the prejudice is recognized to stories such as a woman being made from a mans rib and social community practices such as dowries paid to fathers by prospective husbands to purchase their daughters to be wives. Innumerable literature orientation is made to females being the fairer, weaker sex, and males being the strong, unconquerable hunters of the world. The collective authority of these societal and religious values left little room for impartial thoughts for centuries. Gender inequalities have existed form a long time, but currently, it has greatly threatened the of the state. Everyday forms of violence that occur within our homes include discrimination in intra- household food distribution, lack of access to education and health, early and forced marriages, denial of inheritance right, restriction on womens mobility, verbal abuse, physical and sexual violence against