Parliamentarians, govt officials resolve to take up pending legislation for home-based workers.

A group of 31 parliamentarians and senior government officials have pledged to take up pending legislation for empowering women home-based workers (HBWs) in their provinces as top priority, a press release from United Nations (UN) Women - Pakistan said on Wednesday.

The parliamentarians and senior government officials took the pledge after a two-day inter-provincial exchange of experience on the economic empowerment of HBWs in Pakistan.

After the event, Provincial Minister for Information for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shaukat Yusufzai said, 'Education has a key role in enabling women to advance in society and grow socially and economically. In KP, 70 per cent of education budget is allocated for girls' education, which is testament to our commitment to empower women in the province.

'KP's Women Empowerment Policy envisions economic empowerment of women as an important area of work. The labour laws in the province have provisions for women protection against discrimination of all sorts,' he remarked.

Chairperson Gender Mainstreaming Committee of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab Uzma Kardar said, 'Gender mainstreaming doesn't mean only the financial inclusion of women in workforce, but women representation should be at par with men representation at...