Are the youth in Pakistan familiar with gender theories, movements and developments?
Regrettably, no. There are some isolated courses and modules on “gender” but there are largely superficial and historical. We can see two major defects: First of all, the discourse on gender is entirely cut off from political, cultural or religious realities in Pakistan. That way it doesn’t take into account the local idiom of Islam or cultural conditions and gets easily labelled politically as “Western”. Second, the gender movement’s local evolution has been co-opted by an insensitive development industry, which exclusively promotes the economy. As a result of these two factors, the youth is only exposed to an isolated “Western” gender perspective or a co-opted development sector, and gender empowerment in a true sense remains distant. Finally, for the German public it is interesting to learn about their possible course of action. What role can the German or the European gender movements play to support gender development in Pakistan? What is the convergence point of Western and Easte
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