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I come from a very small village in Punjab, Pakistan, where women are not allowed to pursue their higher education.
我來自巴基斯坦旁遮普的一個非常小的村莊，那里不允許婦女接受高等教育。
The elders of my extended family didn't allow their women to pursue their higher education or their professional careers.
大家庭的長輩不允許家中女人接受高等教育或從事任何職業(yè)。
However, unlike the other male guardians of my family, my father was one who really supported my ambitions.
然而，與家族的其他男性長者不同，我的父親真心地支持我的雄心壯志。
To get my law degree, of course, it was really difficult, and frowns of disapproval.
為了拿到法學學位，當然那很難，還有因不贊成而緊縮的眉頭。
But in the end, I knew it's either me or them, and I chose myself.
但最終，我知道，要么選自己，要么選他們，我選擇了我自己。
My family's traditions and expectations for a woman wouldn't allow me to own a mobile phone until I was married.
我的家族傳統(tǒng)和對女人的期望不允許我結(jié)婚前擁有手機。
And even when I was married, this tool became a tool for my own surveillance.
即使在我結(jié)婚之后，手機變成了監(jiān)視我自己的工具。
When I resisted this idea of being surveilled by my ex-husband,
當我拒絕接受前夫要監(jiān)視我的想法時，
he really didn't approve of this and threw me out of his house, along with my six-month-old son, Abdullah.
他絕不同意，并把我和六個月大的兒子阿卜杜拉一起趕出了他的房子。
And that was the time when I first asked myself,
那是我第一次問自己：
"Why? Why are women not allowed to enjoy the same equal rights enshrined in our Constitution?
“為什么？為什么不讓婦女享有《憲法》規(guī)定的同樣平等權(quán)利？
While the law states that a woman has the same equal access to the information,
既然法律規(guī)定婦女有同樣的平等機會獲取信息，
why is it always men -- brothers, fathers and husbands -- who are granting these rights to us, effectively making the law irrelevant?"
但為什么總是要男人--兄弟、父親和丈夫--來賜予我們這些權(quán)利，而讓法律變得形同虛設？”
