Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurship
The latest episode of Ranra (Light) highlighted the role of women as entrepreneurs and the challenges faced by them.
The guest in the show, Ms. Saba, an entrepreneur/ businesswomen said that women, being the majority of the population of Pakistan can play their positive and progressive role by putting in their efforts for the society’s progression. She elaborated that although participation of women is still less, nevertheless, there are women who are doing tremendous jobs as professionals.
While talking about the challenges faced by women when it comes to businesses or jobs she said that many women still face harassment issues when they enter the workforce as she also faced such challenges at the start of her career. Yet she tried to compete with the male dominant setup of the society and broke stereotypes. She was of the view that parents should focus more on empowering their daughters and equip them with technical skills including giving them higher education.
She said that although the government and civil society is playing its part to empower women by providing them with different vocational training and life skills but there is a dire need to do more in this regard as well as a responsibility falls on women to come forward, play their part and become role models for those who have fewer resources but they do want to be entrepreneurs.
A report prepared by Mr. Shakir Mehsood from D.I. Khan stated that there is a dire need for doing a lot to empower women in contemporary times but unfortunately, there is no legal institution established yet, for instance a chamber of commerce in D.I. Khan to promote women empowerment.
The report by Ms. Asma Gul from Peshawar shared that those women who are independent can play their positive role not only to serve the society but they can also keep their household matters organized.
About Sabawoon:
Sabawoon airs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) since 2011. It began as a counter-radicalization, strategic communications program, designed to highlight and promote the fundamental governance values such as democracy, rule of law, women’s rights, and equal citizenry, social cohesion.
The show airs Tuesday through Thursday every week under four themes on FM-101.5 Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan 711 kHz from 3:20 PM to 4:00 PM.
On Tuesday, Jarga Maraka covers current affairs and important regional issues with input from government and other senior officials. Jwandai Jazbey airs on Wednesday and deals with issues of relevance to, and significance for, youth, students and women. Socio-cultural and female issues are discussed in Ranra on Thursday.
The primary objective of the show has been to underline the criticality of constitutionalism, fundamental rights, public accountability and the rule of law for countering extremism illegalities of all forms.