Female Labour Participation in Pakistan – III on November 10, 2021In most cases, women are not aware of workplace discrimination and harassment laws and if they do, they fail to take advantage of them. In an investigation, Rehman (2017) found that 51 per cent of respondents to an online survey would not be comfortable telling their boss or colleagues that they were pregnant due to […]
Female Labour Participation in Pakistan – II on November 2, 2021Another dilemma is the increasing gender gap where concrete measures are required to be taken by Pakistan to fill this gap. According to a Pakistani English daily newspaper’s report, Pakistan’s gender gap has widened by 0.7 percentage points (55.6 per cent) leading only to Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan and ranked 153 out of 156 countries […]
Female Labour Participation in Pakistan – I on October 26, 2021The International Day of Girls is celebrated on October 11 every year. International Day of Girl Child was declared by the UN to amplify the voices of young girls around the world and increase awareness of issues faced by them. In 1995, at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, the need for an event […]