Why all Pakistani women should
have the education to read
Would you like it if you couldn’t read even if
you wanted to?
In Pakistan most women and girls can’t read. In
fact the literacy rate is 46% while only 26% are literate!
I think that what is happening in these
countries is disgusting and morally wrong some people don’t even have a chance
to become Christians because they can’t read.
Did you know the female literacy rate is
between 8 and 13%? Only 54% of girls are enrolled in primary schools, which
drops to 30% for secondary schools. The Taliban has amazingly destroyed more
than 400 schools.
Reading is fun, interesting and important. “I want to go
to school to learn but I cannot because my parents do not allow me to do so,”
said 9- year-old Palwasha, who has visited the biggest city of Pakistan where
she saw girls of her own age going to school.
Pakistani religious representatives stated in
interviews that girls should not receive the same education as boys, but be
prepared to become ‘obedient’ wives and mothers. This makes my blood boil!
I think women and men should have the same
rights in education. Now that you have listened to my speech only a complete
idiot would still think Pakistani women shouldn’t be able to read.
By Ayla Sariana MacNaughton
