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Women make inroads in Pakistan as they become firefighters and barriers slowly fall

  • Masooma Zaidi is one of 50 women firefighters in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province
  • Another 180 are training as rescue divers, ambulance medics and emergency responders
By AP ·

At a pumpkin festival near Berlin, powerful women take shape — one gourd at a time

By AP ·

Bahrain, UN Women open nominations for global women’s empowerment award

By Arab News ·
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Stitching freedom: How Hindu women in Sindh are tailoring a future beyond poverty

By Ismail Dilawar ·
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A room of one’s own: Women claim men-only ‘Autaq’ community spaces in Pakistan’s Balochistan

By NAIMAT KHAN ·

Riyadh event highlights women’s role in diplomacy

By Arab News ·

Saudi women lead conversation on leadership, investment and cultural power at Fortune summit

By Waad Hussain ·

Fortune reveals 100 Most Powerful Women in Business list for 2025

By Zaira Lakhpatwala ·
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‘It’s a no-brainer to go where the progress is,’ Fortune editor-in-chief tells Arab News ahead of Riyadh summit on women in business

By Zaira Lakhpatwala ·

Pakistan’s women ‘Rowdy Riders’ take on traffic and tradition

By AFP ·

Breaking barriers: Somalia’s Bilan launches landmark women-led current affairs TV show

By Arab News ·

Kingdom wins women’s empowerment award at tech forum

By SPA ·
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Pakistani woman with congenital hand deformity stitches her future, piece by piece

By RANA MALHI ·

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