September 13, 2015: Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF), in collaboration with partners UN WOMEN and Indus Motor Company (Toyota Pakistan), recently launched an Innovation Challenge and a 3-day Hackathon to encourage creative and innovative people to help address the challenge of womens transport. Adopting an innovative approach to kick-off the exercise, the PIF organized an hour...
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Dancing to the tunes of women rebels
The music industry has had its share of badass female artists, loved, adored and even hated by many. Apart from making some of the biggest hits, they managed to ruffle many a feather through quirky antics, disruptive behavior or defiant attitude; in other words not conforming to norms set by society. The list includes many...
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En-route to Public Transit Safety for Women
The ability to move freely and have full control over movement plays an influential role in a womans economic emancipation. It is not untrue to claim that true empowerment is only possible through improved mobility which enables women to take control over their lives, have access to education, markets and exposure to information. That said,...
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Smashing the Glass Ceilings
Equal participation of both men and women in the economic activity of a country is critical not only for sustainable development, but for a balanced and equitable society. Although this a fact already acknowledged universally, there still exists a disparity between awareness and reality. A number of companies have begun to realize that empowering women...
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The trade of gendered vulnerabilities
Theres a reason why Liam Neesons movie Taken has captured our attention as its terrifying premise of losing ones daughter to a powerful international human trafficking syndicate hits a raw nerve in every parents mind. And while we would like to think that the government is doing its job to protect its citizens, news of...
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Empowering Women Hackathon #TakesBackTheWheel
Pakistan Innovation Foundation an apolitical non-profit dedicated using innovation to bring about a transformation in the Pakistani society launched the Womens Transportation Innovation Challenge and Hacatkhon this week. There are millions of women who use public transportation to get to work or educational institutions in Pakistan and because many face discrimination, both economic...
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Eight awesome female rebels we want in real life
While literature and history is replete with examples of gender inequality and objectification of women. Be it fact or fiction, reams of paper have also been used to illustrate the female gender as strong, emancipated and intellectually extraordinary. From the feisty Scarlett O Hara, the demonically powerful SHE, effervescent Bathsheba Everdeen to the modern day...
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Arab Woman Awards 2015 UAE announces panel of illustrious judges
Dubai, UAE: The Arab Woman Awards UAEs organisers have finalised an illustrious panel of female judges for the Awards 2015 edition. The awards aim to raise public awareness of significant achievements by Arab women in the region and provide young women with inspirational role models. Nominations for participants are open to the public up to...
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On Gendering the Media
Women have suffered more by the hands of chroniclers than history itself! The importance of inclusivity is now being acknowledged not only in how the story is written, but also by whom it is actually penned. While this realization has dawned upon us quite late, and progress, albeit at a snails pace, is underway, women...
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Beauty is never #nofilter
How many times have we heard ourselves saying: Beauty is only skin deep and Dont judge a book by its cover, and actually believing it? Many times, I suppose, especially during our impressionable years and then faithfully, we hold on to them even as we find ourselves learning just the opposite. The recent brouhaha over...