Help Train & Develop Women Trading in Pakistan

There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family. While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.

Empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors is essential to build stronger economies, achieve internationally agreed goals for development and sustainability, and improve the quality of life for women, men, families and communities. Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their right to control and benefit from resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being. Keeping this fact in mind, our foundation is aiming to empower more and more woman. When one of our programme is educating girls, we have started this project where we are planning to train women in trading and marketing of their bussinesss, service and products because we know that when more women work, economies grow.

An increase in female labour force participation—or a reduction in the gap between women’s and men’s labour force participation—results in faster economic growth because evidence from a range of countries shows that increasing the share of household income controlled by women, either through their own earnings or cash transfers, changes spending in ways that benefit children.

We wish to have and live in a society where topic like gender equality or women empowerment don’t exist because everyone is equal. We know its hard but we want to try to build that society whether by educating our girls or by empowering our women, we will do it but for this we need help from all of you.

Together we are transforming lives.

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.