Key Features of

National Gender Policy Framework

In March 2022, the PTI
government presented the
National Gender Policy Framework
to promote equality in the society,
to give proper opportunities to
women in fields of education,
politics, employment and health
among others. The government
declared 2022 as the year of “year
of female employees”.

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The policy is based
on six key features,
including:

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• "Equality and Quality in Education” to
ensure proper and equal opportunity
of education for women across the
country along with equipping the young
girls and women with high-income
skills.

• Then comes the “Governance” feature

which talks about developing a gender-
transformative governance structure
under which the women can play
equally and vital role in governance and
making state policies.

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• The point of “Employment and Economic
Empowerment” focuses on providing
equal access of work opportunities with
safe working environment so that the
women can wholly utilize their skills and
professional expertise.

• Then the “Agency, Political Participation

and Meaningful Engagement” talks about
providing channels to women so that they
can work on their leadership skills,
mentorship and ultimately play vital role
in policy making and program designing
for the governments.

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• The “Health and Well-Being” point
emphasizes on a structure with the
goal to provide gender-sensitive health
elements to the women across the
country and providing them an easy
access in every region.

• Last but not least, “Safety and

Security” feature tends to end domestic
violence and oppression of women in
our society through development of
new protection systems, policies and
programs.

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But, critics ask: will it work? They say the policy
seems great on paper and it is not the first time a
positive policy has been presented by any
government on gender equality. They maintain
that the issue is implementation and more
importantly telling the people, especially women,
how this policy will work, how it will benefit them
and how they can take benefits from it.
Furthermore, critics maintain, the men of the
families, in both rural and urban areas, need to be
taught about this because accept or not, men still
play a dominant role in our social family structure.
The recent challenge in the implementation of
policy is the change of PTI government. The
biggest question is: Will current government
continue the policy framed by PTI government?

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