F.P. Report
KARACHI: PWFFP celebrates the International Woman’s Day that was initiated by Clara Zetkin in 1908 as a women’s factory workers protest against unfair wages.
However it is amazing that in 2024, the calls for Woman’s Rights are still resounding in the advanced West, where women have attained entry and excellence in every field that were once regarded as exclusive male domains. And earn excellent wages. Makes one think that Patriarchy and chauvinism are still a global phenomenon.
For PWFFP international woman’s Day is Stocktaking of where the Pakistani woman stands, where she has to reach and what are the bottlenecks that need to be removed so she arrives there.
Despite the higher visibility of women in schools and colleges, offices… in untraditional professions as pilots, space cosmonaut, gas station attendant, public vehicles drivers or athlete’s mountaineers, sportswoman, stem scientists, Pm, now a CM, CEOs, Oscar winners or Nobel.
Laureates, Pakistan languishes over decades in the bottom most ranks in the Global Gender gap index because these high Achievers are only a handful in a teaming 12 crore population of 49% female population of the country, and usually come from a Privileged background.
