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Pakistani Working Women Face Harassment, Discrimination


Pakistani Working Women Face Harassment, Discrimination
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The International Labor Organization says barely one-fifth of the women in Pakistan work in paid jobs. On the heels of the fatal gang rape of an Indian woman on a bus in New Delhi, VOA's Sharon Behn reports from Islamabad that the lack of safe and secure public transport is one of the reasons even educated women in Pakistan are unable to work and break out of the cycle of grinding poverty.

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