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For some reasons, mainly male chauvinism, the Women Reservation Bill has not been passed by parliament. It was introduced in the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996 when the then prime minister, Deve Gowda, was in office. As ...

Senator Sherry Rehman has aptly reminded us that women in our Southeast Asian culture are still seen as subordinates to men. On the political front, this manifests as women being given roles as state ministers, who she claims have no power. Although ...

ISLAMABAD: Women parliamentarians should not accept to be a state minister, said Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday, saying that women being appointed state ministers is just another way of showing they are not capable of holding important and powerful positions. ...

HYDERABAD: Decrying apparent procrastination on part of the Sindh government and highlighting the repercussions, the Women Action Forum has demanded activation of the Sindh Commission on Status of Women without further delay. At a press conference in Hyderabad, the forum’s Prof ...

“The law must be gender-blind. Democracy cannot work if women are subjugated, uneducated and unable to be independent. ”–Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, in ‘Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West’.In the aftermath of the recent disqualification of Pakistan’s Premiere, political responses ...