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Feminism in Pakistan refers to the set of movements which aim to define, establish, and defend the rights of women in Pakistan.This may involve the pursuit of equal political, economic, and social rights, alongside equal opportunity. [1][2][3] These movements have historically been shaped in response to national and global reconfiguration of ...
142th out of 146 (2023) Women in Pakistan make up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan. [3] Women in Pakistan have played an important role in Pakistani history [4] and have had the right to vote since 1956. [5] In Pakistan, women have held high office including Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Assembly ...
www.ncsw.gov.pk. National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW) (Urdu: قومی کمیشن برائے وقار نسواں) is a Pakistani statutory body established by the President Pervez Musharraf, under the XXVI Ordinance dated 17 July 2000. [1] It is an outcome of the national and international commitments of the Government of Pakistan like ...
According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union ranking, Pakistan ranks 100th in the list of 190 countries in terms of representation of women. [9] Pakistan is ranked at 93 among 153 countries in women’s political empowerment where 20.2% of women are legislators, whereas 12% of women are appointed at ministerial positions, according to the Global ...
Marriageable age and divorce. Divorce in Pakistan is regulated by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act (1939, amended in 1961) and the Family Courts Act (1964). The Child Marriage Restraint Act or CMRA (1929) set the marrying age for women at 16; in the province of Sindh, as per the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, it is 18.
The Punjab Commission on Status of Women ( PCSW) is a human rights institution in Pakistan, which was established by the Government of Punjab in March 2014 under the PCSW Act, 2014. [ 1] Its mandate is to work for the empowerment of women, expansion of opportunities for socio-economic development of women, and elimination of all forms of ...
The total enrollment in primary public sector is 11,840,719; 57% (6,776,536) are boys, and 43% (5,064,183) are girls. 79% of all the primary students in Pakistan are enrolled in rural schools, and the gender enrollment ratios are 59% and 41% for boys and girls respectively in rural Pakistan. Private sector.
The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.