Silence of the working woman
SELECTIVE justice is no justice at all. In today’s age, a chance of getting any kind of protection for women is increasingly dependent on the level of publicity an incident…
Working children
THEY are everywhere. Sweeping floors in the homes of the wealthy, serving tea at stands, begging outside shopping malls, cleaning car windshields, working in brick kilns, and tilling the soil.…
A woman’s story
MAHWISH works at Dawn News in Islamabad. She stands out in a large room full of people, not because she is a woman surrounded by men but because she doesn’t…
Invest in a woman’s right to work
The true spirit of development demands that women’s participation in the labour force remain healthy. Among many indicators of economic development, women’s participation rate is a reliable method to measure…
As world swelters, will new IPCC climate science chief be a woman?
Amid scorching heatwaves from Europe to China and the United States, governments will this week pick a new leader for the UN’s flagship science panel on climate change - with…
The octogenarian architect working to flood-proof Pakistan
At 82 years old, architect Yasmeen Lari is forging the way in fortifying Pakistan’s rural communities living on the frontline of climate change. Lari, Pakistan’s first woman architect, has ditched…
Being a woman in Pakistan
Being a columnist in Pakistan is frequently akin to being a pallbearer. You get to participate in the burial of your dreams of a peaceful and happy social order. And…
Can we ask the woman, first?
WHEN my brother Shannay was thrashed 11-0 in a table tennis match with a friendly female champion of the sport at JNU, he left the room muttering: “I somehow prefer…
A Sufi woman’s courage
IN the French town of Suresnes, located across the Seine River from Paris, is a street named after Noor Inayat Khan. The street also features a small elementary school named…
I am a woman born of a woman
[Continued from ‘Aqleemas’ revolt in the arid land’ (March 12, 2019). The readers are advised to first read ‘I am a woman born of a woman’] We now move on…
