Women in Federal Civil ServicesThe study by Homer Jan Baloch and Kaiser Bengali analysed data of women in the public sector for 2013. At the higher level — basic pay scale (BPS) grade 17-22 — this percentage falls to less than one-fifth at 19.3% with 92 women in grade 20, 33 in grade 21 and just five in grade 22. Curiously, the President’s Secretariat has only one woman amongst the 74 officers between BPS 17-22 working there. On the other hand, the Prime Minister’s Secretariat has a strength of 188 officers in BPS 17-22. In the Supreme Court, there were only 113 women working in BPS 17-22 accounting for around 6.2% of total staff.

Source: The Express Tribune December 15, 2017 04:27 UTC