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Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, a means to achieve the goal of gender equality.

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to comment on the World Bank document: Integrating Gender Into The World Bank's Work. A Strategy for Action. I would like to begin by congratulating the Bank ...

Women’s economic empowerment is a necessary step to promote women’s rights and achieve gender equality. Throughout the last decades, women have been entering the labor market and, despite the still ...

In an earlier piece, I promised to address the question of mainstreaming. It’s taken me eight months because it seemed like such an obvious and uncontroversial topic that I kept fighting the urge to ...

Zahid Abdullah is the author of two books, Disabled by Society and The Wise Man. He is also one of the few Right to Information activists in Pakistan and has written on this subject extensively in ...