Change not possible without educating ourselves, seminar told
(WorldNews Pakistan)

“Our society makes fun of the #Metoo movement and this has real-life consequences. Women have started coming forward to shame their culprits,� said Dr Uzma Rashid, assistant professor, United Nation’s Peace University, Costa Rica, on Thursday. She was addressing a public forum debate on the topic of ‘Gender Justice: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Activists’, organised by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences, Ziauddin University. Speaking as a guest speaker, she said Pakistan ranks 148 out of 149 on the list of global gender gap index, and it is because we do not have familiarity with the concept of gender inequality. She suggested both men and...