The consequences of female illiteracy are far reaching and have a direct impact on women's capacity to sustain and protect themselves and their families. The long term social benefits of women education include increased family income; delayed marriages and reduced fertility rates; reduced mortality ratio; better nourished and healthier children and families; greater opportunities and life choices; better chances to avoid disease; greater political participation; and improved economic activities..The present study is an attempt to find out the situation of women's access to higher education as compared to men; the stratification aspect experienced by female students going to colleges; the primordial and institutional constraints that come in the way of female higher education; the problems faced by female students going to collages and the facilities provided by government agencies to promote higher education among women in Pakistan.

Despite the exponential growth of higher education in Pakistan since the late 1990s, there is a great dearth of authentic material drawn from primary sources. Writings usually come from secondary sources.The authors give a vivid account of the sector and present a wealth of information built from primary sources like Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Planning Commission, Census, Economic and Statistical Reports. The perspective is historical and critical and presents the way it has been shaped by education policies and plans of the government of Pakistan. The book reviews education policies and five years plans; development of the sector; international reports; problems relating to quality; policies and procedures of accreditation; faculty and student, management and governance and the role of the private sector. The message of the book is very clear that investment in higher education does not go unrewarded and its neglect does not go unpunished. The book shall be useful to policy planners of higher education, academia students, researchers and those who need to know about higher education in Pakistan.