Employment Situation and Economic Exploitation of Poor Earning Women in Rawalpindi

Faiz Bilquees and Shahnaz Hamid
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Faiz Bilquees: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1988, vol. 27, issue 4, 791-801

Abstract: This paper is based on survey data collected for the project "Socio-economic Profile of Poor Urban Women in Rawalpindi". The objective of this paper is to show that the poor and illiterate have limited work opportunities, they usually face a double-day burden and they are exploited economically. Realizingtheir own hardships these women have definite opinions with regard to the future employment opportunities of their daughters. The total sample consists of 385 households of which the women actually working at the time of the surveywere 'only 176. Thirtytwo women reported having stopped work due to very low payments. Amongst the remaining 177 non-working women 55 were prohibited from undertaking paid employment by the family and/or husbands.

Date: 1988
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