Activist schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai hit out yesterday at how women are portrayed “like objects” in pop music.

The 17-year-old campaigner said she gets “a bit angry about the image of women” painted by music lyrics and in raunchy videos.

She was shot by the Taliban after speaking out for gender equality in her native Pakistan. The bullet narrowly missed her brain and she was flown to Birmingham for specialist treatment.

Ms Yousafzai has settled into life in the city with her family — but revealed she has been shocked by some aspects of Western culture.

“It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music,” she told the Observer Magazine.

“I don’t often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, ‘What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?’

“Most of the time they do not even make sense.

“And the thing is that most of the female artists seem to have accepted all this.

“But they have a role to play.”

Ms Yousafzai has also become involved in the campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM).

She said her education opportunities are much better in Britain but questioned people’s perception of society, pointing out FGM is a bigger problem here than in Pakistan.

She said: “People think, ‘Oh, everything is good here because it is a developed country,’ but I have seen that there are things here that need to be highlighted and solved.”