Pakistan’s younger women riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs

Naz working from home in Karachi, Pakistan. Naz said the TechKaro course was challenging in many ways but she soon found that the women on the training were just as good as the men at tech skills like coding, web development and digital marketing, and also at presenting themselves at interviews. — KAINAT NAZ/Reuters

KARACHI: When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ago, she had no idea it would completely change her life and her views on how women can work in conservative Pakistan.

Naz, 22, had never ventured far from her home in Orangi Town in Karachi, one of the five largest slums of the world, but was feeling dissatisfied with her current teaching job.