Digital Pakistan – But not for Women

By Atiya Abbas

In this vlog, Atiya Abbas takes a look at barriers to financial inclusion for women. From patriarchal attitudes to how systems are deliberately inaccessible, there is a lot of redesigning to these systems that needs to be done for there to be meaningful change.

References:

Fact and Fiction: Examining Microcredit/microfinance from a Feminist Perspective https://www.awid.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fact_and_fiction_examining_microcredit_from_feminist_eng.pdf
Profiting off the poor, one small loan at a time https://www.dawn.com/news/1613728
Thank you Mutaher Khan and Khuzama Bano for sharing your insights and tweets.