Women’s Empowerment and Human Development in Pakistan: An Elaborative Study
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Management Sciences and Education - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Women are the most significant part of our social structure, but despite this fact, they usually face a number of obstacles in their way to avail their rights. Power, prestige and status should be given to the women with their rights of jobs, skills, education, security, health, better standards of living etc. The current research paper has main focus on “empowerment of women and human development in Pakistan” and uses “agency approach” for measuring empowerment of women. This paper comprises of three parts. Part-1 explains the approach with modern aspects; part-2 elaborates a summary regarding hard works for women empowerment in Pakistan; in part-3, the degree of achieving empowerment is analyzed by using some social indicators. This paper is basically consisted of data of secondary type published by Pakistan Demographic Survey and World Economic Forum.
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Hina Ali, Ruqia Bajwa, Urooj Hussain
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