Pakistani girl shot

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Educated women are not new to Pakistan.
Unfortunately, dead educated women aren't new to Pakistan, either

Benazir Bhutto would be an example of both.

Ever noticed the correlation between poor nations and nations that keep their women from being educated? So much of the economic growth in Africa has been women gaining education and creating cottage industries.

As a whole, Pakistan is fine with women studying and working.
Depending on whose statistics you're using, at least half of the country's college students are women.
Women represent a higher proportion of Pakistan's workforce, each year (still low).

What you're reading about is Pakistan's tribal region - rural villages that border Afghanistan and Iran.

I'd wager a nickel or two that you'd still find similar patterns in America's deep south.

True, Bangladesh and Pakistan have a better record with women in goverment than the US does.

bailey bud wrote:
I'd wager a nickel or two that you'd still find similar patterns in America's deep south.

Not to get into an argument with you, but do you have a source for that claim or is it just your gut feeling? I've not heard of any women being kept from an education in America other than maybe a handful of anecdotal examples (can't remember hearing any of those either).

BB you sound like Big Puss. a very negative and uneducated post on the South.

Yep, we educate them before we keep them at home barefoot and pregnant down south... Sheesh BB, you're starting to sound like an arrogant snob.