Status of Female Teachers in Pakistan: Problems and Prospects

Education is a life long process. In this process, teachers play an important role. For this purpose, teachers must be equipped with necessary knowledge, attitude, behaviour and skills. In fact, they require performing their tasks effectively in the classroom according to the situation. However, unfortunately Teacher Education, in Pakistan has remained the most neglected sector of our national system of education. In spite of the fact that each educational policy since 1947 to- date have emphasized the need for improving teacher education programme. Therefore, the aim of writing this article is to determine the status of teacher education and its problems especially to find out the problems of female teachers .This study also suggests the ways and means for empowering female teachers in Pakistan. The study is descriptive survey type in nature. For collecting data, questionaire, and interview schedule was developed and administered on sample population of both rural and urban of Sindh province. The data was analyzed in accordance with the objectives and in the end recommendations were made for the improvement of the status of female teachers in Pakistan