Role of Woman in Nation Building

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Role of Woman in Nation Building The world’s great leader and founder of Pakistan Quaid-E-Azam M.Ali Jinnah said, "No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.” Nation-building refers to the process of constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. The task of nation building requires the participation of all regardless of their race, ethnicity or gender in the creation of a strong state. It is the establishment of equitable, democratic and egalitarian society in which the rights of men and women are respected. A woman is an architect of society. She establishes the institution of family life, builds the home, brings up the children and makes them good citizens. Her strength in totality contributes in the making of an ideal family, ideal society and an ideal state. It has rightly been said who holds the purse holds the nation. Women played important role in many sectors. The list of women is quite large who have very significantly elevated the status and grandeur of women by virtue of their devoted efforts and activism for the cause of social welfare, struggle for freedom and Pakistan Movement. Some of them are Bi Aman, Miss Fatima Jinnah, Begum Ra’na Liaquat Ali Khan, Begum Tassaduq Hussain and countless other ladies worked in different ways. In Pakistan today, almost one half of all women work outside the home (both in formal and informal sectors) for pay to augment the family resources. Although some, particularly the rural women, work in the farms/agricultural production, many others work in the public and private sectors – government, commercial,
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