Hazara Islamicus (Jun 2019)
Limitations of women's financial activities, from the point of view of shariah and law = عورت کی معاشی سرگرمیوں کی حدود ،شرعی وقانونی نقطہ نظر سے
Abstract
"Women are more than half of the world population. They are the mothers of the other half. As mothers and careers, as producers and farmers, the work of women supports their families and communities. Yet, throughout the world, the poorest people are predominantly women and their dependent children. Women face an increasing level of violence because, of their gender and half a million die each year as a direct or indirect result of pregnancy. Historically, women in both eastern and western societies were viewed as the weaker, sex and this view placed women in the category of a lesser being. Even today women in most of the world are less well-nourished than men, less healthy, more vulnerable to physical violence and sexual abuse and less paid. They are much less likely than men to be literate, and still less likely to have professional and technical, education. In many nations, women are not fully equals under the law, often burdened with full responsibility for house work and child care, they lack opportunities, for entertainment and imagination. In all these ways, unequal social and political circumstances give women unequal human capabilities (ibid). For most of the last 50 years, development theory and practice was focused on economic development. Moreover, the development of infrastructure such as road, electrification, irrigation, schools and hospitals was seen as the basis for economic, growth and development. Although the various programs were introduced in this period, they ignored women as economic actors. "
