The burden of unpaid care work with high fertility rate is in many ways at the root of all of these problems because more children result in more unpaid care work and it also means that women will be in poorer health conditions, especially in lower and middle-income levels, rendering them unable to acquire the skills needed for gainful employment opportunities. Adoption and effective implementation of home-based and domestic workers laws can address informal economy issues of extremely low wages and lack of access to social security. Social norms also do not support women’s involvement in economic activity outside their homes and this forces them to either fall back in the informal sector (women are heavily concentrated in it) and rely upon unskilled or low skilled jobs (mostly home-based) or to simply not participate in the wider economy. This leads to women being more time poor and having less time to spend in gaining skills and getting jobs. Unpaid care work and informal economy: Women are 10 times more involved in household chores, child and elderly care than men in Pakistan. Without increasing women’s participation, Pakistan cannot meet its development targets or reasonably expect to become a competitive state and society in the 21st century Fertility decline related behavioural change efforts are also critical in addition to improved service delivery to enable women to have healthier lives and find better economic opportunities. This will allow girls to have more years of education and have better reproductive health outcomes. The government must implement anti-early age marriage laws and invest in transforming behaviours of parents and society on such practices. Pakistan also couldn’t meet Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) target of reducing maternal mortality ratio to 150. More educated women are also more likely to get better quality jobs. Presently only 10pc of women have post-secondary education whereas their chances of working for pay increase three-fold with post-secondary education compared to women with primary education. Increase access to education, reproductive health services: Half of Pakistani women have not attended school. Focus should be on the following priority areas: Women’s participation rate has almost doubled in 22 years (1992-2014) but the increase isn’t happening fast enough and with the majority of our population in the youth category, we need to rapidly take measures to address gaps in women’s work status to achieve our goal. Pakistan’s inclusive growth targets require women’s participation in the workforce to rise from current 26 per cent to 45pc. It is in that context that the World Bank, in its initiative, has identified inclusive growth as one of the key factors to the country’s successful transition to an upper-middle income country by 2047. This lack of participation is at the root of many of the demographic and economic constraints that Pakistan faces. Pakistan stands near the bottom of women’s participation in the workforce. Most of the positive attributes associated with development - rising productivity, growing personal freedom and mobility, and innovation - require increasing participation of excluded groups.
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There is a broad consensus that no country can progress without the full participation of women in public life.
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