All-female madrasas boom in Pakistan...

Female madrasas in Pakistan are expanding at a dramatic rate, educating almost a quarter of a million young women and providing more than half of the candidates sitting graduate-level exams every year.

There are more than 1,900 registered all-female madrasas in the country, around 15% of the total, that are experiencing a boom thanks to the failures of the Pakistani education system and an increasing appetite for traditional Islamic values among the lower middle classes.

Female madrasas were virtually unheard of in Pakistan before the late 1970s; the religious institutions have always been aimed at males. More...

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