Women.s Access to Higher Education in Pakistan 12+

📒 The consequences of female illiteracy are far reaching and have a direct impact on women's capacity to sustain and protect themselves and their families. The long term social benefits of women education include increased family income; delayed marriages and reduced fertility rates; reduced mortality ratio; better nourished and healthier children and families; greater opportunities and life choices; better chances to avoid disease; greater political participation; and improved economic activities..The present study is an attempt to find out the situation of women's access to higher education as compared to men; the stratification aspect experienced by female students going to colleges; the primordial and institutional constraints that come in the way of female higher education; the problems faced by female students going to collages and the facilities provided by government agencies to promote higher education among women in Pakistan.