Middle-class girls start thinking about getting married or finding a career from the day they are born. This is a simple question that every young girl faces.
Middle-class girls start thinking about getting married or finding a career from the day they are born. This is a simple question that every young girl faces. These girls have to suffer a great deal in order to pursue a career. The Pakistani tradition of early marriage is a social pressure that prevents girls from continuing their education, and naturally their professional life. There is a barrier between turning towards.
In fact, 21 percent of girls are married by the time they turn eighteen and three percent are married by the age of 15. The most important moment for a girl is when she graduates from high school. It is uncertain whether a girl’s family will support her dreams of getting a professional degree. Girls who agree to the point of getting married, whenever and wherever their parents want them to marry, are labeled as obedient daughters.
Let us consider what happens if the above proposition is rejected.
See in this context when a girl chooses to follow her passion and study before her marriage, it is labeled as scandalous or unfortunate.
When other teenage girls start taking a stand for her, society thinks of them as ‘neutral’. If the family does not encourage this effort and does not refuse to bear the financial expenses, the girl has to manage cash from somewhere to meet her future goals.
Borrowing money for weddings is acceptable.
However, it is not considered acceptable when families want to borrow money for their children’s education. Some people talk or comment about such women that they should not bear this “burden” of educating themselves and pursuing their careers. They need to know that such desires are not uncommon, and that in the real world, her education will count for more than her marriage.
Who thinks they kill a woman by ignoring her dreams? A woman’s future is not just standing in front of a stove and doing housework. It needs to meet bonus criteria, something unusual. God has created qualities in women that will allow them to flourish in any field they wish to join, whether it is a government official, an artist, an analyst, or a doctor.
We have to understand that if a woman needs to fulfill something for her dreams, then she must have complete freedom to pursue her dreams. They are neither ‘neutral’ nor ‘shameful’. Women are the real architects of our social fabric. We need to empower our women to liberate our society.