The ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Tuesday launched the National Gender Policy Framework-2022 right here on the eve of International Women Day aimed toward offering conducive setting to the ladies to excel and empower them
ISLAMABAD, Mar 8 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – eighth Mar, 2022 ) :The ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Tuesday launched the National Gender Policy Framework-2022 right here on the eve of International Women Day aimed toward offering conducive setting to the ladies to excel and empower them.
Chairing the launching occasion, Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Asad Umar attributed the worldwide recognition and success of Pakistan’s efficient Covid response efforts, to the ladies owing to taking part in key position as front-line healthcare employees.
“As Pakistan got global recognition for its COVID19 response, we fully recognize that our health response was delivered by a health workforce which comprises of 76% females (55% female doctors, 88% female nurses and 100% female lady health workers)”, he mentioned.
The present authorities has made an organized effort and put collectively the National Gender Policy Framework which packages the intelligence gathered by topic specialists, worldwide reviewers, and most significantly placing collectively a set of gender targeted strategic priorities recognized by our youth.
Asad Umar highlighted that the Policy comprises the federal government’s clearly outlined intent to offer ladies with the requisite rights and alternatives to thrive as equal and affluent residents of Pakistan.
“I am confident that effective implementation of this Policy will contribute immensely to inclusive social and economic development in which women across social, political, and economic divides will play important and empowering roles,” he added.
Asad Umar mentioned six completely different factors have been labored within the coverage together with schooling, good governance system with particular deal with ladies, employment alternatives for ladies, safety, well being and selling political participation and management.
He mentioned with out participating the half inhabitants of the nation, Pakistan couldn’t transfer ahead on the trail of sustainable improvement.
The minister maintained that the federal government is cognizant of the truth that gender equality is not only one objective, however is the important thing to delivering all of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, as it’s the prime enabler and accelerator for Agenda 2030.
He mentioned the federal government is cognizant of the truth that gender equality is not only one objective, however is the important thing to delivering all of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, as it’s the prime enabler and accelerator for Agenda 2030.
The minister mentioned growing financial participation of 49.2 p.c of the feminine inhabitants is the top-most precedence of the federal government.
According to statistics issued by the ministry, complete labour pressure participation in Pakistan is 68.76 million, out of which feminine participation in labour pressure is 16.36 million and male labour pressure participation is 52.41 million.
Even inside younger ladies (ages 15-29), solely 23 p.c are a part of the Labour Force as in comparison with 70 p.c males of identical age group Although an estimated 76 million ladies are of working age, solely 3.2 million take part in ‘paid’ labor and 72.8 million ladies will not be in any type of “paid’ labor.
The national labor value in Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be increased by 27% by increasing female labor force participation to 50 percent while completely closing the gender gap can boost the national GDP by 30 percent i.e. USD 85.2 billion.
Women’s unpaid work is valued (using comparative median wages) at Rs 683 billion. This constitutes 57 percent of all work done by women, equaling 2.6 percent of the national GDP.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said the incumbent government has taken numerous measures to resolve the special issues faced by the women besides providing conducive working atmosphere to the women and girls to increase share of women in the country’s development process.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and the country’s first lady Lt. General Nigar Johar also spoke on the occasion.
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