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were discussed in detail. The With increasing participation of amendments in “Protection of
participants highly appreciated the women in financial intermediation Women against Workplace
efforts made by NIBAF for capacity in the wake of SBP’s Banking on Harassment Act 2010 (Amended
building of banking professionals in Equality (BoE) Policy and the target 2022)”. Accordingly, all banks have
the far-flung areas of the country to ensure 20% female participation been mandated by SBP and GoP to
through targeted training by 2024, it is imperative to have provide trainings related to gender
interventions. greater focus on Gender & protection against workplace
Sensitization. This becomes even harassment etc. in order to
Gender Sensitization & more critical in rural/remote areas eliminate implicit gender biases
and improve their understanding of
where females seem to be hesitant
Protection against to work in banking sector. Similarly, the legal and regulatory
Harassment of Women at dedicated and trained women requirements.
the Workplace champions are to be placed at 75%
(Amendment) Act 2022 of all bank to help guide female In this backdrop, NIBAF conducted
customers by June 2024. Likewise,
an online VILT program during
Govt. of Pakistan (GoP) has October 24-25, 2022. The main
recently announced major
objectives for the program were to environment, recognize gender workforce. Ms. Sabahat K. Bukhari,
enable the participants to identify biases and ways to mitigate such a corporate trainer and consultant
the factors that play major role in biases, understand legal and along with Mr. Shahid Iqbal jointly
enhancing women’s participation regulatory requirements with conducted the training program
in financial sector workforce, reference to workplace harassment sessions and for around 62
understand the cultural context and and gender mainstreaming and the participants from SBP, SBP-BSC &
ways to improve workplace changing role of women in the commercial banks.