Aims and objectives:

To enhance the status of working women in the urban as well as rural areas through recognition of their economic role.
To enhance the consciousness level and self-awareness amongst Pakistani women in general and working women in particular.
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Aims and objectives:

To enhance the status of working women in the urban as well as rural areas through recognition of their economic role.
To enhance the consciousness level and self-awareness amongst Pakistani women in general and working women in particular.
To encourage women to take up job to raise the socioeconomic standard of self, family and nation.
To undertake socio-cultural studies which determine and define the role of women in national development.
To highlight the economic role of women relating to their participation in household work, farm activities. Wages and employment in the country.
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The Working Women Association came into existence as a response to meet the housing and other needs of young professional women of federal capital. The Association established its first working women hostel in 1975 on self help basis and organised first ever women mountaineering expedition in...
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The Working Women Association came into existence as a response to meet the housing and other needs of young professional women of federal capital. The Association established its first working women hostel in 1975 on self help basis and organised first ever women mountaineering expedition in 1978 with the help of Alpine club of Pakistan.

The Association got itself registered with Federal government of Pakistan in 1987 as a non-profit social welfare organisation in order to do contract researches for funds generation.

Association has come long way in its networking and other development activities for girls and women. Currently it has its membership spread in all the four provinces and enjoys the observer status with UN Economics and Social Development division New Your. Its main functions consist of networking, holding of workshops and conferences and doing research on critical issues facing working women. It also runs some projects of working girls Education and Skill Enhancement besides working women hostels.

Services:
In order to meet these objectives, the following services are provided by the association.
To provide hostel and other support facilities to working women to facilitate them in their job.
To hole seminars, lectures and workshops to raise the consciousness level of women.
To carry out researches and exploratory studies on the needs of special categories of women e.g. professional women, white collar.
Workers in public and private sectors and women with special needs.
To establish education and skill enhancement Center for girls and women at grass roots.
To organise healthy recreational activities like mountaineering, tracking, participation in national and international conferences. A contingent of 25 women members of TWWA participated in Beijing NGO Conference. Two members of TWWA participated in World Conference as observers.
Research:
The Association has been undertaking research in following areas:

The data collection surveys and policy studies on development of women and girls in urban and rural areas.
The attitude and impact surveys of special populations.
Joint Ventures with other consulting agencies in multinational projects for social impact human resource development and environment.
The monitoring and evaluation studies of development projects
The studies to quantify the economic contribution of women relating to their participation on household, farm activities, handicraft and employment sector studies are carried out.
Action research to sensitise the society regarding the plight of rural girls and women in domestic services.

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Training:
The Association promotes and carries out training programs, which prepare women for non-traditional occupations and there by expand their job opportunities. Human resource development, environment, income generation skills and teachers training programs are carried out regularly.