00:00In Pakistan, just 13.5% of wage employees are women.
00:04And they make about a quarter less per hour than men, even if they have higher education.
00:10Getting to the workplace is another barrier.
00:13In Karachi, 80% of women report having been harassed on public transport.
00:19Services are often informal and limited after dark,
00:22and social norms might dictate whether a woman can travel alone.
00:26Now, more women are shifting to working online.
00:29Hiring works differently here, says Ambreen Salman,
00:32freelance online trainer for the e-learning platform Dot and Line.
00:36If they see that the person is very well capable of doing that particular task,
00:41and if he or she is smarter enough, they will definitely go for it.
00:48I don't think so that gender comes over there.
00:51On digital freelance platforms, jobs are often awarded based on skills and results.
00:56Ratings, completed projects and customer feedback are what clients see first.
01:01The technology was not designed to promote gender equality.
01:04But some tech entrepreneurs say some of their usual biases have been challenged.
01:09So the best part is that they don't really care which gender you belong.
01:14It's all about your performance, it's all about your ratings, it's all about how you fare in the market.
01:21So it gives more chance to women as well because you're not judged by how you look or your gender.
01:29Also, programs have emerged to move more women onto these platforms.
01:34One accelerator, which has since closed, trained more than 100 women.
01:39Nearly two thirds found paid work within three months, it said.
01:44Making money changes a lot of things for almost everybody.
01:50For women, it's a huge blessing in the sense that they get that seat at the table.
01:54The family dynamics really, really changes because now they are part of that decision making for the home.
02:00We have a lot of stories of women who were able to send their kids to better schools,
02:06who were able to start their investment journeys,
02:09who were able to build wealth for their families,
02:13for women who were able to buy homes.
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02:18The state of the North that was one of the most vulnerable men to the race.
02:18We have to go for thousands of other people who were able to call public race.
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02:18The North that was adramatic one of the most vulnerable to the South.
02:18The South is the South East.
02:19The South of the South is a big part of the South where we face.
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