Women's rights in Pakistan continue to be debated in the current political climate in Pakistan, after the state … approval for Nizam-i-Adl. The question of women's rights needs to be examined in the context of their class, ethnic and rural … existing legal frameworks defining and redefining their public/private role. This paper argues that women are actively involved …

The last decades have witnessed an unprecedented increase in women's economic independence through higher educational … in the literature concerning how this increase in independence has translated into women's living standards, measured … it. The analysis unfolds three stories regarding the relationship between increasing economic independence for women …