LAHORE, Aug 20: The Pakistan Labour Federation has demanded equal representation of women on local bodies and assemblies.

Voicing the demand at a seminar on `problems of women’ organised by the Directorate of Workers Education here, Federation Secretary General Haji Muhammad Saeed said that representation of women in local bodies and assemblies should be increased to 50 per cent as they comprised half the population of the country.

Federation chairperson Attiya Saleem said that the country could not progress without equal participation of women in economic activities but they were being forced to stay within the four walls of houses in many parts of the country.

Girls were not sent to schools and women were denied wages equal to men. Rabia Ejaz said that the government was trying to solve the problems of women on priority.

The Directorate of Workers Education was organizing seminars in all parts of the country to create awareness about the rights of women. —Reporter