Bias in textbooks
GENDER bias in textbooks is an important but overlooked problem. Content analyses of textbooks have shown that women occupy a subordinate status in society; their roles are insignificant and mostly…
Press for progress
International Women’s Day is celebrated across the globe on March 8 annually to recognise the achievements of women. This day also provides an opportunity to salute the outstanding women playing…
Women in a strong Pakistan
I was fortunate to have grown up in a family where gender equality was not just a notion but a reality. My mother studied in Gordon College, one of only…
Sharmeen’s win & women’s rights
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has won a second Oscar and the prime minister has promised legislation to eradicate the scourge of ‘killing for honour’. The stage has thus been set for a…
Flying solo
Pkistan’s successes are individual, its failures collective. Take mountaineering: a young mountaineer Samina Baig conquers Mount Everest in 2013. In exploration, Namira Salim reaches both Poles — the North in…
The new Pakistani woman
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, a year’s journey of Pakistani women can be summed up in four images, each worth many thousand words. On May…
View from the rooftop
Any lecturer will recognise the species. They are to be found sitting in the front row of the audience or towards the back. They clamour to be recognised so that…
On top of the world again
Sixty years after the world’s highest peak was first scaled, intrepid adventurers have literally been queuing up lately to reach the summit of Sagarmatha, better known internationally as Mount Everest.…
