Islamabad-Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice Barrister Maleeka Bokhari has been selected as World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for five years. The Young Global Leaders of Word Economic Forum is a dynamic community of more than 1,400 members from ...
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KARACHI: Fiza Farhan from Pakistan has been named as member of the first ever high-level panel of the UN secretary-general on women’s economic empowerment. Fiza Farhan is Chief Executive Officer of Buksh Foundation and Director of Buksh Energy Pvt Ltd. ...
Read More »Wage inequality persists, says gender gap report
ISLAMABAD: Despite an additional quarter of a billion women entering the global workforce since 2006, wage inequality persists, with women only now earning what men did a decade ago, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2015. The global gender ...
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The international media is fond of posting images of a Pakistani woman being draped in a burqa. Well its depiction may be in line with the outcomes of the annual Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum ...
Read More »Gender gaps and the global economy
By: Syed Mohammad Ali This past week, the World Economic Forum released the annual Global Gender Gap Report, which aims to quantify the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time. The news for Pakistan is not good, ...
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