Women comprise almost half of the population on this planet. A great majority of them are deprived of basic existing facilities of social development. They are struggling for better health care facilities, job opportunities and social justice, equal rights in different countries all over the world. They are facing discrimination and social exploitation in different societies.

United Nations recent world “Women Conference 1995” held in Beijing last September. Its agenda was:

1.- Women oppression

2.- Women Poverty

this conference arises many questions:

Why women are suffering, inspite of being part and parcel of the society?

Why they are not provided with equal opportunities?

When they will get rid of their poverty, exploitation and feel free?

We think that occasional world conferences are not the solution to the problems women have been facing in the world for centuries. Practical measures are needed to liberate them from their sufferings.

In countries like Pakistan, the level of exploitation and suffering is much more higher  compared to other countries because of the backwardness of the society, prejudices in the culture and distorted infrastructure.

In Pakistan:

Out of 131 million population, 48% are women.

Psychologically, people don’t feel happy at the birth of baby girl.

Women literacy rate is 1.8%

135,000 women die every year at child birth due to insufficient hospitals and health care facilities.

Insecurity at workplace is rife.

Women representation in the Parliament is negligible.

They are deprived of basic human rights, facing hikes of exploitation including sexual harassment.

Women in Pakistan need to be organised on class line, because they are facing different social problems, like price hikes, severe unemployment insecurity, looting, poverty.

They are facing discrimination by religious leaders, who always put obstacles in front of them, halting from doing work, getting education and playing any part in the social development of the society.

The poor women are working as domestics, in brick-lin industry, in construction work, especially building roads, in cotton, rice and wheat fields, in textile and garments manufacturing industries, working 10 to 12 hours a day getting less than half wages than that of men.

Majority of them are forced to do bonded labour in carpet manufacturing industry. Many are involved in home cottage industry.

Apart from that they are chained in different cultural and religious traditions. The previous dictator introduced the discriminatory laws of blasphemy “Haddod Ordinance” against women. Two women witness are considered equal to one man in a court of justice.

We think that under the existing capitalist system of exploitation, there is no way out for the ever increasing miseries of men, women, and childre,.

Women emancipation lies in the eradication of old, bankrupted ideas with advanced ideology of their real liberation from all sorts of oppression, which will provide them with equal opportunities of development in the society of modern civilisation.

Women can achieve their rights, get emancipated from terrible exploitation only in a socialist society of peace, justice and equality.