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Asset Ownership and Female Empowerment: Evidence from a Natu...
Researchers use data collected in the aftermath of the massive 2010 floods to investigate the impact of this wealth shock on marital asset ownership and women’s empowerment. The estimated results show...
Change, Livelihoods and Gender Dynamics of Mountainous Commu...
Focusing on women’s experiences in Pakistan’s Upper Indus Basin, this qualitative study documents climate-induced threats to livelihoods and how women adapt to climate extremes. Women, particularly du...
Home-Based Women Workers and Social Protection in Pakistan (...
Informal, home-based women workers in Pakistan are highly vulnerable. This UNDP report focuses on the need to extend social protection to these workers, who lack access to basic labor rights and essen...
Facing the Challenges of Girls’ Education in Pakistan (2023)
About 12 million Pakistani girls are out of school (2 million more than boys), most of them from the poorest households. The authors summarize possible solutions for bringing more girls to school and ...
Women’s Participation in Household Decisions and Gender Equa...
Women’s role in household decisions signals empowerment and can be instrumental in reducing inequality. The authors explore the relationship between changes in women’s participation in household decis...
Bringing STEM Education to Girls in Pakistan (2022)
An inspiring episode with Lalah Rukh, Founder and CEO of Science Fuse, a social enterprise working to promote science education among young learners in Pakistani schools. Listen here
Women Farmers in Pakistan Aren’t Realizing their Potential –...
Pakistani women farmers face challenges at the policy and individual levels in realizing their potential. Barriers, such as gender norms and perceptions that women are “helpers” not farmers, and a lac...
Climate Equity: Women as Agents of Climate Action
Produced jointly by the National Commission on the Status of Women and UNDP Pakistan, this report offers policy prescriptions for strengthening resilience and reducing the vulnerability of women who d...
Engendering Climate Change Learnings from South Asia
Providing perspectives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, this book focuses on gendered experiences of environmental change. It offers an overview of socio-economic pressures faced by women ...
Women’s Mobility and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence fro...
Physical mobility constraints can have a large impact on job seeking, especially in cities with high crime rates and conservative social norms. This study experimentally varies access to a transport s...
How Female-Friendly Are Workplaces in Urban Pakistan? (2022)
Pakistan has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in Asia. In this policy brief, researchers from the Asian Development Bank identify a complex web of restrictive social norms, bar...
Pakistani Women are Not All Right (2023)
Mira Sethi gives an impassioned account of violence faced by Pakistani women, their efforts to increase autonomy over their bodies, and male allyship. Read more.