Financial freedom vital for women empowerment: Alvi

Women entrepreneurs urged to play their role in rural areas

ISLAMABAD: Financial freedom is a must for women empowerment in the country for which the government is taking several laudable steps. This was said by President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday while talking to a delegation of Islamabad Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry led by its founder president Samina Fazil.

Economic independence and equal opportunities are a must for women empowerment which is necessary for national development, therefore, women should be given all due rights, he added.

The president urged women entrepreneurs to play their role in empowering rural women and increasing their outreach by using social media.

“We can make women economically independent and that will be a vital step towards their empowerment which will help transform the society,” he said. Alvi commended the central role women play as homemakers as well as millions more whose contributions go unrecognised.

Women parliamentarians had to play an important role in pushing ahead the legislation and resolving other issues being faced by the women, he said, adding that IWCCI will be supported in this noble cause.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 10^th, 2019.