Women play a significant but often overlooked role in Pakistan's economy. While traditionally viewed as housewives, women contribute through various economic activities, particularly in rural areas through agriculture, livestock raising, and cottage industries. Currently, around 25% of Pakistani women participate in the formal workforce, though the actual percentage is likely higher when considering informal work. Increasing women's education and reducing social and legal barriers could boost women's economic participation and increase Pakistan's GDP by up to 30%.

1. ROLE OF WOMEN
IN PAKISTAN’S
ECONOMY
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3. Group members
Rabia Kousar
Fatima Rehan
Fatima hassan
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4. An economy is an area of the production,
distribution and trade, as well as consumption
of goods and services by different agents.
Economics is important for many areas of
society. It can help improve living standards
and make society a better place. Economics is
like science in that it can be used to improve
living standards and also to make things
worse.

5. Economic
growth
The economic growth of a country is a
broad process of growth, progress and
change that is deliberate by residents of
the area to be developed, organizations
and governments. Women literacy rate
plays a vital role to enhance the economic
development of the nationwide. The
advancement of the society relay on the
efficiency of its educational systems that
provides same prospects of getting an
education to everyone
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7. Role of women in Pakistan’s economy
Background :
◦ In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, women were only viewed as mothers
and housewives, within development policies and programs .
◦ Their economic activities and contributions were ignored and not
valued.
◦ Development theorists and planners saw men as the agents and
actors of development.
◦ Men were seen to be the breadwinners of their families. Women
were in visible. Women were an under-utilized resource for
development.
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9. Working women in
Pakistan
◦ Women in Pakistan have progressed in
various fields of life such as politics,
education , economy, services, health
and many more.
◦ 25% of Pakistani women were
"economically active"(either employed, or
unemployed but available to furnish
labor).
◦ In NWFP (89.54%) and Sindh (74,36%).
Punjab shows an almost equal division
between full-time workers (55.6%) and
part-time workers, while in Baluchistan
82.84 percent of female family workers
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10. IN TWO OR
THREE
COLUMNS
Red
Is the color of
blood, and
because of this
it has
historically been
associated with
sacrifice,
danger and
courage.
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11. Employment
◦ Pakistan is a largely rural society (almost two-thirds of the
population lives in rural areas) and women are rarely formally
employed.
◦ This does not mean that women do not participate in the
economy: quite on the contrary, women usually work on the
farm of the household, practice subsistence agriculture, or
otherwise work within the household economic unit .
◦ However, women are often prevented from advancing
economically, due to social restrictions on women's movement
and gender mixing, as well as due to low education.
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12. NEXT MEMBER
RABIYA KAUSAR
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13. Work force participation
◦ Although women play an active role in Pakistan's economy, their
contribution has been grossly underreported in some censuses and
surveys.
◦ Part of the underestimation of women's economic role is that Pakistan,
like many other countries, has a very large informal sector.
◦ The 1991–92 Labor Force Survey revealed that only about 16% of women
aged 10 years and over were in the labor force.
◦ According to World Bank, in 2014, women made up 22.3% of the labor
force in Pakistan.
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14. According to the 1999 report by the Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan, only two
percent of Pakistani women participate in the
formal sector of employment. However, the 1980
agricultural census stated that the women's
participation rate in agriculture was 73%. The
1990–1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey
indicated that the female labor force
participation rate was 45% in rural areas and
17% the urban areas . Pakistani women play a
major role in agricultural production, livestock
raising and cottage industries.
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15. In 2008, it was recorded that 21.8 percent of
females were participating in the labor force in
Pakistan while 82.7 percent of men were
involved in labor. The rate of women in the labor
force has an annual growth rate of 6.5 percent.
Out of the 47 million employed peoples in
Pakistan in 2008, only 9 million were women
and of those 9 million, 70 percent worked in the
agricultural sector. The income of Pakistani
women in the labor force is generally lower than
that of men, due in part to a lack of formal
education. The low female literacy rate is a large
obstacle in women taking part in the workforce.
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16. AND
TABLES TO
COMPARE
DATA
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17. Role of rural
women
◦ Rural -women are major contributors in four
sub-sectors of the rural economy, crop
production , livestock production, cottage
industry, household and family
maintenance activities, such as transporting
water, fuel and fodder to and from the
home, food preparation and preservation
and caring for children,
◦ The elderly and the disabled women make
up 76 percent of all part-time workers and
only 25 percent of those acknowledged as
full-time workers.
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18. ROLE OF urban
women
◦ In urban areas, females find their way to
schools, colleges, universities or
scholarships abroad .
◦ Other than the medicine, which was once
considered to be the only profession which
women joined, Now even the most
technical spheres like engineering,
architecture, communications and IT.
◦ Women can now be seen encouraging
cricket teams and participating all kinds of
sports from cricket to athletics and even
marathon recently held in Lahore.
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19. Role of women in Pakistan’s economy
◦ Today, women in Pakistan hold high ranking positions as
the CEOs and executives. Recently the president has
appointed Dr.Shamshad Akhtar as the first female governor
of the State Bank of Pakistan. Two lady doctors of the
Pakistan Army have also risen to the rank of major general .
The female doctors joined hands with the male doctors in
the most inaccessible earth quake hitareas in the northern
part of Pakistan to treat the sick and wounded.
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20. NEXT MEMBER
fatima hassan
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21. Economic
growth
◦ In medical field women are working
well as compared to males , Women
works as a gynecologist preventing
lives of thousands of women and with
their proper cure preventing them from
fatal disease.
◦ In surgery they also perform a notable
contribution.
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ROLE OF women in
medical science

22.  Women working as a midwife
and nurse and also a lady doctor
serves to save the lives of people
nurses receive silver star award
previously.
Women services during this
pandemic of covid 19 is also
remarkable .
They served the humanity
selflessly.
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23. • Women now a days is also playing an
important role in scientific developments
and discourse, however, this role has
historically received relatively less
recognition and coverage as compared to
their male counterparts.
However, blogging has opened up a way
for leading women in science to bring to
light the important improvements women
have made
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ROLE OF
WOMEN IN
PHYSICS
AND
ENGINEERI
NG

24. Famous
Pakistani
scientist
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Pakistan-born
astrophysicist Nergis
Mavalvala
Dr aban
Conservation biologist

25. Famous
Pakistani
scientist
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Dr Tasneem Zara
Theoretical physicist,
Cambridge
Mobeena Zafar
Senior programmer
NASA engineer Hiba
rehmani

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Industrial revolution:
◦ From the beginning of the Industrial
Revolution, we know that women invented
and improved machinery and industrial
designs.
◦ One of our country’s earliest successful
industries the straw bonnet business was
built on several related inventions, all by
women. It began in 1798, with Betsey Met
calf's development of an improved method
of braiding straw to make straw bonnets.
Her invention formed the basis of a
flourishing cottage industry.
◦ Mary Dixon Kies helped the industry expand in
1809 by developing a process for weaving the
straw for bonnets.

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◦ EXAMPLE :
◦ 1835 Power Loom Weaving
was a common occupation
amongst women during the
Industrial Revolution. This
image is an example of an
average cotton factory at this
time;

28. ◦ According to a recent report released by
the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Pakistan’s GDP can increase by up to 30
percent if women are more empowered
and play their role in the labor force.
◦ Unfortunately, the employment rate for
women is at its lowest in Pakistan (4.3
percent) and is even lower when it comes
to industries.
◦ It has been witnessed that almost all
factories work in three shifts and hire male
workers.
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◦ FACTS :
◦ Women’s economic empowerment is
central to realizing women’s rights and
gender equality.
◦ Empowering women in the economy and
closing gender gaps in the world of work
are key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development,
◦ When more women work, economies
grow.
◦ Increasing women’s and girls’
educational attainment contributes to
women’s economic empowerment and
more inclusive economic growth.
◦ Women’s economic equality is good for
business.

31. • Gender differences in laws affect both
developing and developed economies, and
women in all regions.
• Women remain less likely to participate in the
labor market than men around the world.
• Women are more likely to be unemployed
than men.
• Globally, women are paid less than men.
• Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs and
face more disadvantages starting businesses
• Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs and
face more disadvantages starting businesses:

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