Women ride Pakistan’s economic crisis into the workplace

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Amina Sohail is the first woman in her family to enter the workforce.
Photo: Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP
Source: AFP

Amina Sohail veers through heavy traffic to pick up her next passenger –- the sight of a woman riding a motorcycle drawing stares in Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi.

The 28-year-old is the first woman in her family to enter the workforce, a pattern emerging in urban households coming under increasing financial pressure in Pakistan.

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