Nature has divided human beings into two halves and both are given responsibilities which suit them. Along with assigning the responsibilities, nature has very clearly stated the rights of both on each other. Gender discrimination is a practice which we face when both the genders show the desire of substituting their duties without giving and due credit to each other.

In such a scenario, the powerful became aggressor and other became the victim of aggression. Basically when we think that women (may be because of their fragile outlook) are not equal to men and are not capable of doing anything good then gender discrimination comes into play.

In societies where a male child is regarded as more valuable to the family, girls often are denied the right of life, denied the right to name and nationality. And by being married off early or forced to stay at home and help in domestic chores, girls are often denied the right to education and all the advantages that go with it, the right to associate freely and the rights accompanying unjustified deprivation of liberty. These all are basic humiliations to girls when boys are regarded as the pillars of tomorrow.

Education is the tool that can help break the pattern of gender discrimination and bring lasting changes for women in developing countries like ours. Pakistan has for decades invested very little in education, and in particular, girls’ education. Girls’ education also means comprehensive change for a society. Educated women are essential to ending gender bias, starting by reducing the poverty that makes discrimination even worse in the developing world.