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Gender at Work in Pakistan

Gender at Work in Pakistan

Qureshi, Kaveri
Majid, Hadia
Siegmann, Karin Astrid

Hardcover

Series: Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 30, 2026

ISBN10: 0367506734
ISBN13: 9780367506735
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 314
Language: English

This book analyses the structuring role that gender plays for accessing work, experiencing work, and working conditions in Pakistan.

Considering how these structures have been challenged and changed, the collection provides a fine-grained engagement with the role of gender at work in Pakistan against the backdrop of policy and academic discourses that often invisibilise the work and employment of women and transgender persons while normalising a male breadwinner model and masculine norms in and beyond the workplace. The book engages explicitly with feminist thought from South Asia and informs wider feminist discourses with fresh perspectives from Pakistani thinkers. Chapters straddle the analysis of occupations as diverse as agricultural labour, home-based industrial outwork, and domestic and unpaid care work. In line with transnational feminist thought, this book contextualises gendered labouring practices whilst paying attention to how gendered relations at work are embedded within cross-border dynamics, colonial histories and the global political economy. This wide perspective includes a critical engagement with neoliberal discourses around women's paid employment as empowerment and the celebration of women's entrepreneurship. Taking on board how gender can become a resource for resistance, this book counters and complicates the trope of 'victimised' Southern or Muslim women.

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