Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

KARACHI: The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) is in partnership with International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to enhance women’s employment opportunities in Pakistan. In furtherance of this, PBC and IFC, in collaboration with the Pakistan ...

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: Dr Amtul H Mumtaz We live in a societal setup that is highly stratified according to caste, class, and cultural and regional variations, all of which have implications on the opportunities provided to women. Thus researchers have suggested that ...

By: Arif Zaman Economic growth is more robust and sustainable when women and men alike participate fully in the labour market. Better jobs for women – employment that leads to higher wages and greater decision-making – also have a positive ...

By: MARVI SIRMED In the Olympic Sports Stadium, around thirty thousand men took their comfortable place to watch the show. The cheerleaders were ready to buck the sport up with their chants already coined, which they forced upon the crowd. ...