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In Pakistan, particularly in the rural and suburban areas, promoting women’s education can perhaps play a vital role in gender equality. Education will also increase the ability of women to secure employment in the formal sector. The purpose of this study was to explore the possibilities and opportunities for women’s empowerment in Pakistan. This first stage looked at the perceptions of a small group of ten women who hold senior posts in a female university. Data were gathered by semistructured informal interviews and it was hoped that considering information-rich cases would illuminate the questions under study. 1) How the participants in the study understand the role of higher education in empowering women at home and at their work, 2) what they see as the major constraints to progress in career, 3) what type of coping strategies they propose for the entire female population to realise their full potential. Participants were more or less agreed that women have to face socio-cultural hurdles to acquire education and pursue careers. Pakistani women are struggling hard naturally to get their rights but also to write history of success indicating how opportunities were/ are created and possibilities can be explored and negotiated in a non-confrontational manner.

Ghazala Noreen, Humala Khalid. (2012) Gender Empowerment through Women’s Higher Education: Opportunities and Possibilities, Journal of Research and Reflections in Education, Volume 6, Issue 1.
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