{"id":2374,"date":"2021-09-18T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T17:14:24","slug":"asad-umar-underscores-importance-of-gender-transformative-workplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/asad-umar-underscores-importance-of-gender-transformative-workplaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Asad Umar underscores importance of gender-transformative workplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has underscored the importance of gender-transformative workplaces.<br \/>\nChairing a meeting in Islamabad on Saturday , Asad Umar desired that a policy framework be developed based on deliberations and rapid research, identifying the current barriers faced by female workers in public and private sector organizations.<br \/>\nHe said key recommendations outlined in the framework should not only guide development of a public sector program, but must also be supported by necessary legal instruments to make working environment conducive and progressive for women.<br \/>\nDuring the meeting, the Minister expressed his concern over the rising proportion of out-of-school children following the pandemic globally as well as in Pakistan, sharing the Government\u2019s intent in tackling this challenge as a national priority.<br \/>\nThe Minister highlighted the need for exploiting the e-school experiences from the pandemic and using COVID19 as an opportunity for introducing innovative e-solutions, e-schools and accelerated learning programs for reaching out of school children.<br \/>\nWhile reviewing the proposed innovative employment generating and skill-building strategies, the Minister advised that the same be reviewed in tandem with the existing interventions under the Kamyab Jawan Programme to consolidate efforts and resources under one umbrella for an optimum impact.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-had-made-inflation-biggest-problems-of-people-of-country-bilawal-bhutto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Imran Khan had made inflation biggest problems of people of country: Bilawal Bhutto<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has underscored the importance of gender-transformative workplaces. Chairing a meeting in Islamabad on Saturday , Asad Umar desired that a policy framework be developed based on deliberations and rapid research, identifying the current barriers faced by female workers in public and private sector organizations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[450,410,451,449,452,138,183,273],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-asad-umar","tag-bilawal-bhutto","tag-covid19","tag-federal-minister-for-planning","tag-kamyab-jawan-programme","tag-pakistan","tag-pm-imran-khan","tag-pti-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}