Economic Rights
Pakistan’s economy has not sustained the growth rates required to reduce the country’s dire poverty. .Today, "Pakistan’s female formal labor force participation rate hovers around 15 percent.While that represents a tripling over the past 20 years, female labor force participation is still low in an absolute sense and relative to other countries with similar per capital GDP.Women in Pakistan are exploited for being a "woman". With a high workload from dawn to dusk, a woman gets paid far less than what man gets doing less work. Pakistan also ranks as the world’s second-worst country in terms of gender equality and equitable division of resources and opportunities among men and women, says a report published Friday.Just 23% of women participate in the workforce, versus 86% of men, one of the widest disparities in the world and 3% of all individuals in managerial and leadership positions are women, worse than any nation except Yemen. "(Nation, 2013)Women lack ownership of productive resources. Despite women's legal rights to own and inherit property from their families, there are very few women who have access and control over these resources. Around 90% of the Pakistani households are headed by men and most female-headed households belong to the poor strata of the society. Women lack ownership of productive resources. Despite women's legal rights to own and inherit property from their families, there are very few women who have access and control over these resources.