Women and work

By Dure Sameen Akhund Published in DAWN on December 22, 2021 PAKISTAN is facing one of its worst economic crises, with inflation hovering around 10-10.5 per cent for FY2022, resulting in massive hikes in food, energy and consumer prices. The upward moving trend of commodity prices coupled with a relatively flat wage trend, has given rise to […]

Women’s Participation in Politics in Pakistan

GIDS Working Paper No. 06-21           Fareeha Zafar Professor Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Anum Sami MPhil Student Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Abstract While the exclusion of women from the political arena results from several structural, functional and individual factors that vary in different social contexts across countries, the common[…]