
Participants pose for a group photo during launching ceremony of a report titled “Mapping Family-Friendly Workplace Policies in Pakistan,” on May 12, 2025. — Facebook@unwomenpakistan
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ISLAMABAD: Social sector, businesses, employees, and Pakistan’s broader economic growth, Pakistan Business Council (PBC), UNICEF, and the United Nations women jointly launch a historic report on Monday to launch a historic report, titled “Mapping Family Friendly Work Places”, and launching a historic report on Pakistan.
The report states how progressive workplace measures-such as parents ‘departure, flexible working arrangements, and increasing employees’ welfare with the help of children’s care, promoting children’s development, gender equality, and sustainable economic development.
Pakistan has a home of more than 92 million children under the age of 14, yet formal care support for children is making an important challenge for labor parents, especially mothers are trying to balance their professional and care responsibilities.
This comprehensive report reviews the policies of family -friendly workplace in Pakistan, which focus on childcare measures and economic growth, gender equality, and their effects on maintaining workforce. Using a mixed methods design-including surveys, focus group discussions, deep interviews, and urban centers such as Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
The report urges businesses to understand the needs of their employees and seek sustainable models of child care for their industry. Flexible arrangements and employer -backed children’s care solutions are the most effective ways to help working families and promote more comprehensive workforce.
The report also emphasizes the need to recognize and reduce care, to help children care for child care infrastructure, and to add family friendly policies to business methods and tasks to help the working families of the working families.
In its remarks, PBC CEO, Esan Malik, emphasized, “For the private sector, family-friendly policies are beyond compliance or corporate goodwill-they are now a modern, flexible and high-performing manplace to promote a stronger, unprecedented, unprecedented, unprecedented, unprecedented job.
This report acts as a practical resource, in which several adaptable models are offered to make companies in accordance with their specific needs. It offers an early point or the next step. For organizations whose purpose is to create more comprehensive, supportive, and future workplace.
“Family friendly policies are key to unlocking children’s skills, empowering women and running economic growth in Pakistan,” said Abdullah Fadel, a UNICEF representative in Pakistan. “With only one in five women in the manpower, flexible work arrangements, access to cheap, standard children’s care, and work for working mothers are essential. These policies promote early childhood development that formulates the entire child’s entire future and is more comprehensive, productive in Pakistan.”
“When the workplace adopts family friendly policies, they not only support the parents-they help create more gender-related and comprehensive workforce,” said Jamshed Kaji, a UN representative of Pakistan. As raising their families, we are the foundation of strong communities and a more equal, prosperous future for Pakistan.
The Minister of Women’s Development Minister Shahina Sher Ali, the Sindh government, said, “An ideal workplace is a place where both women and men are provided with equal opportunities, safety and professional development. We imagine an environment where women are given the power to Excel according to their abilities, and men are more supportive and respected, with a great deal of support, and with a great deal of work. Go