SheConnects: Childcare, unsafe travel deter women entrepreneurs

Even as more women enter technology-enabled start-ups in Pakistan, they continue to face a host of deterrents which can trace their origins to the more analogue world of yesteryear including the lack of a supportive environment for mothers and difficulty in networking for business development.

Additionally, the lack of reasonably priced and safe commuting options is hindering women’s mobility limiting the growth of their start-ups.

These were conclusions of a new report, ‘SheConnects – tech-enabled women entrepreneurship in Pakistan.’ The report was launched by Media Matters for Democracy (a not-for-profit working to promote media and information literacy, media entrepreneurship, Internet rights and free expression in Islamabad) and German political think-tank Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in the federal capital the other day.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17^th, 2018.