WOMEN IN SINDH
Sindh is the second largest province of Pakistan, where i born,
grown up, studied and used to work for many years.
By Aftab Hassan Khan
INTRODUCTION:By nature Sindhis are a very loving, polite &
generous nation. They love their land, home and fields and, in
most cases, do not want to leave Sindh.. The roles that women
take on in society are very important: they are mothers, sisters
and wives. But, too often, being a woman in the Sindhi society
is a thankless task, and often very dangerous.
In Sindh,patriarchal customs of control over women include the
institutionalization of extremely restrictive codes of behaviour
for women, a practice of rigid gender segregation, specific
forms of family and kinship, and a powerful ideology linking
family honor to female virtue. Men are entrusted with
safeguarding this family honor through their control over female
family members -- controlling, specifically, the female body,
both in terms of sexuality and and its reproductive ability.
Thus, when a woman