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Pakistan is a democratic country and in a democratic and justice society there is no place for any kind of discrimination and violence. Data shows the situation is anti this perception. Pakistan enlisted between low developed countries in context of inequalities and violence. Statistics of 2021 shows cases of violence against women especially domestic violence 200 % increased during covid-19. Education has the capacity to prepare students for challenging such atrocities in the society. Education about violence against women should be included in all disciplines of under graduate level, so as to improve awareness about this topic. A quantitative approach was used to investigate the perception of undergraduate students about existing curriculum contents in terms of providing knowledge of violence against women. Six factors of variable violence against women was taken to collect student’s responses. Survey method was used to collect quantitative data. A self -developed research tool “KWAW” (questionnaire) was used to gather student’s responses. This study aims to collect the perceptions of undergraduate students about existing curricular contents for providing knowledge of violence against women among a sample of 800 sciences and social sciences students. The analysis was descriptive and inferential. Means and standard deviations were used to analyze average and variance while t-test was used to analyze the difference between the male and female perceptions about existing contents. The results shows that, majority of the students are on the view that contents are not providing knowledge in terms of violence against women. On the other hand t- test scores shows that male students are more biased in their opinion regarding provision of knowledge of violence in their curriculum as compared to their female fellows. 

Keywords: Domestic Violence, Femicide, Sexual Violence, Child Marriage, Human Trafficking, Online Digital Violence.