Gender Discrimination in Curriculum
Keywords:
Gender discrimination, Equal Rights, Curriculum, prominent place, primary levelAbstract
Even after lot thoughts supporting equal rights, still there is a lot of gender discrimination observable throughout the globe. Even the developed lands are still seems to be at the very initial stage of covering up this gender gap socially. When it comes to developing countries there are many names in the list which can be counted as the land having very high point of gender discrimination, which includes many countries from South Asia. Unfortunately, Pakistan stands in this list prominently. This study opts to observe some obvious gender gap presentation illustrated in different textbooks at primary level. For this Qualitative research method has been adopted and Naturalistic observational approach has been used. For that English and Urdu textbook has been reviewed from primary level. The examples presented explain the clear view of textually presented gender gap. The context supports the statement that how the text in schoolbooks is presenting women in a role of caretaker and responsible for household tasks and in not a prominent place other than that.
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