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It has also developed a Gender Management Information System (GMIS) that helped address gender disparity in the public sector, track implementations of governmental pro-women initiatives, and monitor the status of women in Punjab. PCSW produced research based on the assessment of women in shelter homes and prisons.
Number of Pakistani women in 'STEM' is low due to one of the highest gender gaps in STEM fields. [191] [192] However, over the time, some Pakistani women have emerged as scientists in fields like Physics, Biology and computer sciences. Some notable Pakistani women contributing to STEM are: Nergis Mavalvala:Pakistani-American physicist
One of the program's main initiatives, the Lady Health Worker Programme, trains women to serve as community health providers in areas across the country and has turned out to be a promising community-based health worker program. Lady health workers are local, literate women who undergo approximately 15 months of training after recruitment.
Women as equal citizen of Pakistan are free to contest general elections and to be elected to any public office at the national, provincial and local levels without any discrimination. They have a liberty to exercise their right to vote in all elections, general or by-polls , which they could since independence and were reprised in the 1956 ...
A major strength of government's health care system in Pakistan is an outreach primary health care, delivered at the community level by 100,000 Lady Health Workers and an increasing number of community midwives, among other community based workers. [17]
Pakistan has the highest wage gap in the world, according to the International Labor Organization; women in Pakistan earn 34% less than men on average. [32] Women in Pakistan make significantly less than their male counterparts, earning 16.3 per cent of their income. [27] This makes the monthly income of Pakistani women about 15-20 USD. [27]
The legislative assembly of Pakistan has enacted several measures designed to give women more power in the areas of family, inheritance, revenue, civil, and criminal laws. These measures are an attempt to safeguard women's rights to freedom of speech and expression without gender discrimination. These measures are enacted keeping in mind the ...
Violence against women in Pakistan, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights in Pakistan. [1] [2] Women in Pakistan mainly encounter violence by being forced into marriage, through workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence and by honour killings. [2]