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THERE can be no denying the fact that workplace sexual harassment is rampant in Pakistan — as it is across the world. There are cultural contexts that may differentiate how it manifests here, but our society is nonetheless no exception, ...

“When one husband beats his wife, there is a clear case of personal violence, but when one million husbands keep one million wives in ignorance, there is structural violence.”— Johan Galtung, Violence, Peace and Peace Research. In Pakistan, social media ...

One ought to appreciate the success of the Feminist Movement that has carved a path for creating laws that are women inclusive. However, a crime that should but is not reflective of the parity between genders is Section 375 of ...

“Tortured, beaten, boiling water thrown on her body and salt poured on her freshly bleeding wounds”, is how the TV channels described the punishment of the 10-year-old girl housemaid, Jina Karamat, for mistakenly breaking a plate. Hundreds of other equally ...

The proportion of women entrepreneurs in Pakistan is dismally poor, barely a percentage of the country’s entrepreneurial community. Unless more women embrace business ventures, their economic participation and emancipation would remain meagre and a challenge for national development. One of ...