Speakers at an open house dialogue organised by the Human Development Society (HDS) here on Thursday underlined the importance of social and economic support for women and education in rural areas. The dialogue on womens problems, held at the local hotel, was presided over by vice-chancellor (VC) Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU) Khairpur, Dr Neelofer Sheikh.
She said women are working side by side with their male partners to support their families against all odds. She said that women were facing multiple problems and added that education was the only way to bring about improvement in the living conditions of rural women.
She said that it was very unfortunate that successive governments had paid no attention towards improvement of primary education for women. Dr Naila Bhutto on the Status of Women said that her organisation was focusing on the improvement of status of women. She said the visit of members of the organisation to rural areas was aimed at learning the real problems of rural women by organising open dialogue in different parts of the country.
She agreed with the vice-chancellor that due to lack of proper education the rural women were facing many problems. Nousheen Shakeel said that lack of development facilities and unemployment in rural areas has created a huge gap between rural and urban areas. Due to unemployment and lack of opportunities people of the rural areas were migrating to cities she added.
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