ISLAMABAD, SEP 22 (DNA) — The private sector is crucial to create jobs and improve the livelihoods of women folk across the country, said Rabia Amin, a social worker on Friday. She said private sector and civil society organizations should strengthen business sustainability and women’s empowerment to ensure their active participation by creating job opportunities.

“As a way of strengthening confidence, personal and professional skill building can provide opportunities to women”, she said. She said that by learning new skills, women can build their self-confidence, increase their economic power, independence and make better informed decisions.

She said that women’s empowerment was important for the progress of a country or a nation. “Frequent training and awareness programmes can be arranged to make women aware of their rights and to equip them for exercising just demands,” she added.

She said that adequate implementation of laws was crucial to provide a secure environment for women.“It can enable women to mobilize more effectively, gain power to realize legal entitlements and access to economic and educational opportunities,” she remarked. —DNA