Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

KARACHI: Labour laws in the country are inherently biased against female workers and the government is indifferent to the issues of working women. This was said by HomeNet Pakistan regional coordinator Nuzhat Shirin. She was speaking at a media briefing ...

By: Shazia Mirza Pakistan’s female population is estimated to be 48.65 percent of the total, the majority of which lives in the country’s rural areas. In rural Pakistan opportunities for women are still lower than those the limited ones for ...

By: Kashif Hussain KARACHI: Until a few decades ago, female workers were restricted to a few areas like health and education, sowing crops on farmland and producing home-based handicrafts. With the passage of time, women have found a new place ...

Due to lethargic attitude of the government and absence of implementation of international labour laws in Pakistan, there is about 22 percent female workers of the total women population contributing in gross domestic production and this meagre percentage of female ...