
Bridging Pakistan’s Gender Divide
“Our people won’t let a girl study beyond the third grade (eight or nine years old). But this girl here cries and says: ‘I want to learn’. And I love her so much that I have no choice but to send her away from our village, because no education is available here beyond primary school level. She will go to the big city and she will learn and be the first one in the family”.
I hear these words from a Pakistani father about his daughter back in the early 2000s, on my second research assignment for the International Crisis Group.… Seguir leyendo »