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  • Journalist Nighat Hunzai - Among working women of Pakistan -- Photo by Internews on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

    Towards A Gender Friendly Economy

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                          One question frequently voiced in Pakistan is why many educated women decide to sit back at home rather than working and participating in the country’s economic growth. Currently the literacy rate is improving along with a positive increase in […]

  • A Roma settlement in the Sarisska region

    Slovakia: more young people = more unemployment?

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    Like most of the developed world, Slovakia also faces the problem of an aging population. With ever more elderly people and fewer children, the state pension system requires the raising of the age of retirement age which, in turn, means that fewer jobs are around for young people. Yet Slovakia […]

  • Are Sports an Unfair Game for Women in India?

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    “As an Indian woman of the 21st century, what I find disillusioning is the humiliating manner in which I was set up as bait in a ploy to try and pacify one of the disgruntled stalwarts of Indian tennis.” Sania Mirza The two times Grand Slam champion and India’s number one […]

  • Pakistan: All Hail to Power of Women!

    Pakistan is a country of many contrasting clichés. Just imagine that an event to celebrate the empowerment of women would be staged all around the country on the 8th of March – a country where the birth of a daughter is not considered a great fortune. Just imagine that at […]

  • Lets change the way we look at men and women

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    Why not replace the societal paradigm of man and woman being a contrast to one another to complementing one another? Both must work together to live a healthy life and to form a happy society. Pakistani women are living capsuled lives; experiencing double pressures from society and the men they […]