Gender Issues

Home-based women workers decry exploitation

LAHORE: Home-based women workers staged a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club here on Wednesday to press for protection against exploitation by middlemen by bringing

Amendment to child marriage act sought

ISLAMABAD: Child marriages in Pakistan are a common phenomenon with almost 58 per cent prevalence in rural areas and 27 per cent in the urban

Women fighting gender bias in media

By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: Stereotype portrayal of women in media has long been a subject under discussion at various fora, but no serious attempt is

Recognising harassment

By Lubna Jerar Naqvi Recently, I met a working woman and while talking to her, I found out that she was endangered by harassment by

Girl’s death: hospital’s MD held

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Monday four people, including the managing director, of the Doctors’ Hospital had been arrested in connection with