Help Train & Develop Women Trading in Pakistan

As at Dawood Global Foundation, we are focused towards women empowerment a lot and always explains the importance of women participation in the workforce and its effect on the economy. This is one of the main reason as well that we started to train women in trading so the work they are doing could have more reach internationally. Just few days ago, I read an article on adding women to Pakistan workforce and as it explains the importance of the work we are doing, so decided to share some of its part with our wonderful donors and supporters.

One can read full article at https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/05/an-economic-imperative-adding-women-to-pakistans-workforce-in-substantive-numbers/

The participation of women in the workforce is low in Pakistan. For this reason alone, the competition level must also be lower for the present workforce, mainly consisting of men, due to scarce participation of women. Over the passage of time, it must have made the predominantly ‘men only’ workers away from accomplishing higher standards in a diverse number of fields.

“By providing equal opportunity to women, Pakistan has the ability to push its per capita income to 10,000 dollars in 30 years,” said Illangovan Patchamutha, the World Bank’s Group Country Director in Pakistan.

“Women are more focused when they come at the place of work. It has a reason. Women have to go to work after having done loads of work at home and they have to get back to it,” said Tania Aidrus, Google’s ‘Next Billion Users’ Chief of Staff

To increase economic growth, women should also get equal opportunity just as men have.

World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently ranked almost 150 countries on gender equality as part of its annual Global Gender Gap Report.

Pakistan has made it to the second position, from the bottom, easily making it the worst in terms of gender equality!

With the MGI report in mind, one can safely assume that Pakistan has the potential to take a great leap forward – provided not only a promise of equal opportunity but also a multifaceted secure environment is ensured for the other half of the population.

According to a research paper – ‘Gender Inequality and Its impact on Economy – A Case Study of Muslim Countries’ published in Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies, per capita income of Muslim countries increased with improving the well-being of women.
After studying a cross-section data of 49 Muslim countries, apart from the oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the rest showed a trend of negative relationship between per capita income and Gender Inequality Index number.

It means that countries exhibiting better gender equality profile have better per capita income. The study recommended that by observing gender equality, Muslim countries can have positive effects on their economies. 

And keeping all of the above in mind we at DGF aim to work towards women empowerment more and more so in future there is no issue of Gender Inequality.