AIOU holds Gender Studies Conference to promote research

Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) here on Wednesday held a first-historically speaking national meeting on Gender Studies to advance scholastic examination, identifying with females’ job and commitment in the nation’s financial turn of events.

Debut meeting of the two-day occasion was to a great extent went to by the academicians and analysts from everywhere throughout the nation. Bad habit Chancellor Prof. Dr. Shahid Siddiqui declared on the event that the AIOU will before long distribute an examination diary on Gender and Women Studies to advance the reason for ladies. Such occasion will be made a yearly element, and one year from now a universal meeting will be sorted out to build and spread information to upgrade regard and economic wellbeing of females, he included.

Eminent academician and political researcher Dr. Saba Gul Kattack was the central visitor at the initial meeting, while Dr. Hazir Ullah, Chairman branch of human science, International Islamic University was the key-note speaker who made an intensive survey and relative investigation of the economic wellbeing and position of the ladies in the nation.

Saba Gul said that giving legitimate acknowledgment to ladies is basic for the improvement of solid and prosperous society. Basic and lawful obstructions in the method of their strengthening must be expelled, she included.

The meeting was planned for giving a stage to youthful scientists to feature their exploration work and to help them looking for direction from their seniors to make it progressively powerful in tending to the financial issues of the general public.

During the two-day’s procedures, the members will ponder after winning discernment, practices and potential outcomes identifying with sexual orientation’s fairness and value.

Dr. Shahid Siddiqui, while featuring the AIOU’s job in improving ladies’ investment in the instructive field said the level of their selected understudies have reached to around 56 percent, among absolute quality of 1.3 million.

The University has been giving sexual orientation training in the various orders, since the foundation of its division of Gender and Women Studies around twenty years back. He trusted the gathering will give a chance to specialists and researchers to introduce their examinations, trade encounters, talk about proposition and scatter results.

The Vice Chancellor advised the members about the University’s objectives that were accomplished during the last two and years, especially in advancing exploration social in the nation. Twelve examination diaries were distributed in a brief timeframe range of time. Twenty-two national and universal meetings were organized to hold inside and out examinations in different scholastic controls.

He was of the view that language assumes significant job in advancing legitimate impression of the ladies’ status in the general public. He additionally talked about the significant job of social and instructive organizations in improving social norm and regard of females.

The debut was additionally tended to by Dean sociologies Prof. Dr. Samina Awan who expressed gratitude toward the members for their unmistakable fascination for making the occasion effective. Director Department of Gender and Women Studies Atifa Nasir was additionally present on the event.