{"id":569,"date":"2014-09-22T04:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=569"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:43:09","slug":"haris-gazdar-commences-ycsd-lecture-series-at-habib-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/haris-gazdar-commences-ycsd-lecture-series-at-habib-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Haris Gazdar commences YCSD lecture series at Habib University"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u2018Education and the gender gap: Female literacy rate in villages is near zero, says Gazdar\u2019<\/h3>\n<h4>The Express Tribune, 20<sup>th<\/sup> September, 2014<\/h4>\n<p><strong>KARACHI:\u00a0The literacy rate for women is zero in a number of villages across Sindh, claimed social scientist Haris Gazdar at a public lecture organised by the Yohsin Centre for Social Development at Habib University on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gazdar, who works on political economy and development policy issues, was addressing more than 100 students, academics, researchers and intellectuals regarding women\u2019s education and the gender gap in literacy at the Tariq Rafi lecture theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe global literacy gap for women is said to be 45 per cent but for Muslim women, the number almost doubles, standing at 86 per cent,\u201d said Gazdar. Talking about the prevailing educational crisis in the country, he also highlighted the differences between the individual and the society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/764587\/education-and-the-gender-gap-female-literacy-rate-in-villages-is-near-zero-says-gazdar\/\" target=\"_blank\">View complete story on The Express Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.724461304276485.1073741953.107656719290283&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0 to view our YCSD &#8211; Haris Gazdar event photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Education and the gender gap: Female literacy rate in villages is near zero, says Gazdar\u2019 The Express Tribune, 20th September, 2014 KARACHI:\u00a0The literacy rate for women is zero in a number of villages across Sindh, claimed social scientist Haris Gazdar at a public lecture organised by the Yohsin Centre for Social Development at Habib University<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/haris-gazdar-commences-ycsd-lecture-series-at-habib-university\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-media"},"acf":{"home_page_thumbnail":"","category_select":"","name_overwrite":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Haris Gazdar Kicks Off YCSD Lecture Series<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Haris Gazdar launched Habib University\u2019s YCSD lecture series with a talk on gender inequality in education, highlighting the near-zero literacy rates in villages.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/haris-gazdar-commences-ycsd-lecture-series-at-habib-university\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Haris Gazdar Kicks Off YCSD Lecture Series\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Haris Gazdar launched Habib University\u2019s YCSD lecture series with a talk on gender inequality in education, highlighting the near-zero literacy rates in villages.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/haris-gazdar-commences-ycsd-lecture-series-at-habib-university\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Habib University | News &amp; 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