Pakistan

World Rural Women Day: Women Urged To Seek Independence Through Education

Publisher: 
Daily Times
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Punjab Assembly Member Fouzia Behram on Wednesday emphasised that rural women must get education to change their destiny.

Speaking at the first national conference on World Rural Women Day organised by civil society organisations here, she said without education rural women would be further pushed into poverty, exclusion and suffering by the patriarchal society.

Hundred of rural women converged on Islamabad in a historic gathering to share their experiences and highlight their issues in a bid to create awareness among the masses that despite their handsome contribution to the country's economic and social development, they were denied their basic rights and excluded from the decision-making processes.

Microfinance and Microenterprise Development: Their Contribution to the Economic Empowerment of Women

Publisher: 
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Author: 
Maria Sabrina De Gobbi
Published Date: 
2005
Abstract: 
Out of the 9.5 million people who are currently working in Nepal, only 1.5 million (16 per cent) are paid employment.  Out of this number, 1.2 million are men and less than 400, 00 are women.  Eighty-two per cent of employed women are self-employed vs. 12 per cent of those who are wage-employed.  In some ethnic communities especially in the Newars and Tibeto-Burman highland groups such as the Sherpas, Gurungs or Thakalis, women entrepreneurs have traditionally been present, buy the idea of women in business has only recently spread throughout the whole country.  Women normally work more hours than men and rural women work more hours than women urban areas.
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