70 | P age Gender Discrimination in the Curriculum of Urdu (Compulsory) at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -An Analysis Muhammad Hamid 1 , Shamaila Iqbal 2 ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Available online July 2013 Education is the change agent in the human society. It is education which took the human from caves to space. Education does its work through curriculum. Curriculum is so designed that it may enlighten the minds and souls of the students. But curriculum is not designed for only one gender i.e. male, but it is designed and taught to the whole bulk of population. So both the genders are given the same weightage in the curriculum. But, in case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the scenario is quite different. In its curriculum, female gender has been ignored and it is not granted with its due weightage. It is the need of the day to remove this drawback from the curriculum so that the curriculum of this province may become balanced and more effective. Introduction The research paper deals with the Urdu curriculum of Khyber pakhtunkhwa (a province of Pakistan) focusing upon the gender discrimination in it. As it is a common phemonon in the backward countries that female gender is deprived of proper educationing facilities. Pakistan is also a developing country and its female gender is also poor with respect to literacy/education ratio. However the situation is getting better day by day. The female education is now being focused, by the authorities as well as civil society, to develop the nation and country. The article under study is also an effort towards the betterment of the situation of female education in Pakistan in general and in KPK province in particular. The ratio of the representation of both the genders has been sort out and a conclusion has been found. And recommendations have also been presented for making the curriculum better from the gender discrimination point of view. Man is the best creature on the earth. He is bestowed with reason. Through this power, he is responsible to lead the life on earth. The life he started was unsafe and full of dangers and hardships. He kept on changing the situation and reached upto the current age. He started life in caves where he was bare to the nature’s hardships and dangers. He used his reason, overcame the hardships and got the status of today’s developed man who can fly in airs and swim in waters. Many of the natural powers are subdued to him. The journey of man towards development and advancement is still in progress. He is getting on to the newer destinations day by day. His power of reason is overcoming the hurdles coming in his way towards progress. But it is also a fact that man did not get the current status in a day. It is the fruit of the struggles of thousands of years. Millions and Billions of men contributed their services and struggles to reach this position. Today we see that man is at the height of advancement in all aspects of life i.e. social, intellectual, physical, emotional. The history of human is the witness that the services rendered towards progress were by both genders i.e. man and woman. Both contributed their part in this journey. If the man was a king, a soldier, a scholar, a farmer or a judge, the woman was the mother (she gave birth to all these people).She not only gave birth to these soldiers and kings, but also brought them up and provided them with such nurture that they got such prestigious statuses. She helped the man as sister and daughter to do the praiseworthy deeds. Apart from this, woman has also been the independent ruler in so many countries and dynasties in history. She has served in the fields of art and literature, too. 1 Ph.D Scholar, Urdu Department, University of Peshawar 2 M.Phil Scholar, Urdu Department University of Peshawar.