
As she steps out of the house everyday, its normal for Tara, an 19 year old from a lower class family, to face this pain.Working ladies are still not accepted by most pakistanis in this culture, but she can do nothing about it. She has her old parents to support and three younger sisters who are still completing their education, being the breadwinner she has to face these hardships everyday.
And what are the hurdles? this soceity? the men that chase her everyday, worried about her honour, respect and dignity as she changes buses from buses to reach the textile factory where she works.
Ironically, most people working in the factory are females but there is still a fear, she's scared that these women might doubt her character as she is too young to work or step out of her house or some might just land up with a marriage proposal at her house and she knows that her parents might agree cause they are already looking for a man who earns just enough to feed her
and then what about her sisters' education, their future, her future? and Tara was different from all the women working there unlike them she was educated and ambitious but due to her age, gender and soceity, she was forced to take up a job which didnt have anything to do with her qualifications.
And she doesnt want to marry, she feels that she still has a lot to do and achieve, she doesnt want to be stuck in the four walls of the house cooking and taking care of children instead wants to open a school for children in her locality and give back all that she gained
But the question is, with this soceity who who doesnt let a single woman survive on her own, would she be able to follow her dreams?
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