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Introduction
Status of Women before Islam, and in other religions
- Status of women in Arabia
- Status of women in Roman Empire
- Status of women in Hinduism
- Status of women in Buddhism
Status of women as granted by Islam
Status in a house
- As a mother
- As a sister
- As a wife
- As a daughter
Status in a society
- Right to life
- Right to honour and dignity
- Right to education
- Right to forming and breaking conjugal relations
Status in a state
- Right to enjoy fundamental human rights
- Right to enjoy citizenship of the state
In today’s world, do women actually enjoy the status granted to them by Islam?
- NO
Causes of poor status of women in Islamic states
Religious causes
- Negative role of religious leaders
- Misinterpretation of religious injunctions
- Avoidance of Ijtihad in Muslim states
Political causes
- Undemocratic governments
- Lack of political will
- Poor legislation
- Lack of representation at decision-making fora
Social causes
- Illiteracy of men
- Taboos, customs and traditions
- Security issues
- High childbirth rates
Economic causes
- Poverty at domestic level
- Budgetary constraints at national level
- Lack of economic opportunities
Recommendations for the amelioration of situation
- Role of moderate religious leaders to propagate true message of the religion
- Enactment and strict implementation of laws
- To end domestic violence
- To provide security at workplace
- To control child or early-age marriages
- Fixation and enhancement of quotas
- In elected bodies
- In educational institutions
- In jobs
- Counselling of the male members of the society
- Awareness campaigns
- Allocation of more budget
- For women education
- For population control programmes
- For soft loans
- For women’s health and nutrition
Conclusion
Most Important Essay Topics for CSS-2017
- Water: an emerging reason for war between India and Pakistan
- Governance is a bane of Pakistan
- Air accidents put a serious question mark on the performance of state-owned enterprises of Pakistan
- Education: a factor of change
- Devolution of power is not possible without a meaningful local government system
- Rule of law is the ultimate requirement for growth and development of a state
- Indian policies are dragging the region to another war
- Strikes, sit-ins and rallies; and their impact on democracy
- Syria: another failure of UNO and other global champions of peace
- Syria: a land rife with human rights violations
- Social media: a ray of hope or another Pandora’s box of evils
- CPEC: a door to a new Pakistan
- Corruption is a tree having its roots upwards
