International Women Leaders Summit Gender equality Activists want a more feminine workforce in Pakistan

KARACHI: The International Women Leaders Summit was organised for working women to “learn from mutual experience and cross border exchange”, said New World Concepts CEO Yasmin Hyder, while speaking at the Movenpick Hotel on Tuesday.
The inaugural address was given by United Kingdom Senior Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Baroness Sayeeda Warsi via an online video chat where she spoke of women empowerment leading to national economic growth.
The first female president of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Neera Saggi, was the keynote speaker at the event where prominent national and international spoke about empowering women in the workplace. “No matter how different we appear, there is more that unites us than what divides us,” said Saggi.
Her address on “women making an impact” covered the importance of the role of women as nurturers and the low percentage of working women in the sub-continent, while she also shared her own experience of being a mother as well as a working woman. “If you speak from a position of strength, others have no option but to agree.”
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