1.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
PRESENTED BY:
TOUSEEQ MUSTAFA
TAYYABA ASHRAF
M ZAIN UL UMAR

2.
EMPOWERMENT
World Bank says:
• “Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to
transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes.”

3.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• Women empowerment refers to Increasing the spiritual, political, Social, educational, gender or
economic strength of Individuals or communities of women
• It is the process or the outcome of process by which women challenge gender based discrimination in
every institution and structures of society

4.
NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• The main problems that were faced by women in past days ( and still today up to some extent)
• Gender discrimination
• Women education
• Female infanticide
• Dowry
• Marriage in same cast and child marriage (still existing)
• Atrocities on women: raped, kicked ,killed, subdued, humiliated almost daily

5.
NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT (CONTINUE)
• Educational problems
• Society
• Low confidence
• Lack of unity
• Traditional barriers
• Poverty and ignorance

6.
NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT ( CONTINUE)
Women are deprived of:
• Decision making power
• Freedom of movement
• Access to education
• Access to employment
• Exposure to media
• Domestic violence

7.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN PAKISTAN
• Women empowerment has always remained a contested issue in the complex socio-demographic and
cultural environment of Pakistani society
• Women are ranked lower than men on all vital human development indicators
• Therefore, studying various determinants of women empowerment is urgently needed in Pakistani
context

8.
CAUSES OF WORST CONDITION OF
WOMEN IN PAKISTAN
• We deprive women of their rights in the name of Islam
• Society of Pakistan won’t let a woman succeed
• No policy making for women empowerment
• Lack of education and environment
• In Pakistan women are not given basic infrastructure

9.
SOME STORIES OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
IN PAKISTAN
Malala Yousafzai
• She was born on July 12, 1997 in KPK
• She is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17
• She is the World’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate , and the second Pakistani, and the first Pashtun
• She is well known for human rights advocacy, especially education of women and children in her
homeland Swat , where the Taliban at that time banned girls from attending school

10.
AYESHA FAROOQ
• She was born on August 24, 1987 in Bahawalpur
• She is the first woman to become a fighter pilot in Pakistan Air force (PAF)
• She topped in the final exam to qualify for Fighter pilot
• She is the only qualified for combat and to fly sorties along the border
• Ayesha Farooq is one of 19 women to have become Pilots in the PAF since 2000s

11.
WAYS TO EMPOWER WOMEN
• Providing education
• Self Employment and self help groups
• Providing minimum needs like nutrition, health, sanitation, housing
• Other than this, society should change the mentality towards the word “woman”
• Encouraging women to develop in their fields they are good at and make a career

12.
CONCLUSION
• Women empowerment is a big is a big issue that Pakistan is facing
• It is most important to create awareness and understanding of the problem of women’s employment in
all the top policy and decision making
• Government of Pakistan should take strategic steps to help women