Gender Development Studies Department

1.  Introduction

1.1.       Women’s Stidues aims at studying the lost or undiscovered lives of women in an interdisciplinary prespective directed towards a balanced understanding of social reality. It draws upon Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology and other Social Sciences. One of the reasons behind establishment this field is to compensate for the neglect of women in academic fields.

 1.2.       A women studies Centre was established in the University in 1988, which became functional in 1994. it was raised to the level of a Department in 2003. In 2007, it was re-designated as Gender Development Studies Department.  It includes women’s contributions to knowledge in various fields, society’s approaches and efforts towards understanding the status of women and strategies for empowering them.  It is the most recent discipline which aims at creating gender consciousness.

 

2.       Objectives

2.1.       To institutionalize Gender Studies with focus on women with a view to restructure knowledge including the contributions of women scholars.

2.2.       To bring change in the society for accepting women as equal partners in development and create a gender balance in the progress of society.

2.3.       To contribute to the World Debate on the women’s question and to debate in Pakistan through teaching, research and investigation.

2.4.       Identification of the salient issues in the debate on women’s issues and building measures towards this end.

2.5.       Identification replication and translation of the relevant material from the regional languages into Urdu and English languages.

 

3.       Vocational Job Opportunities/ Marketability of Graduates

3.1.        Public / private sector . 

3.2.        Educational Institute at Colleges / Universities. 

3.3.        NGOs UN country offices.