KARACHI: A father in Karachi has taught his daughters how to repair electrical appliances and work as electricians.
A work like an electrician is a very uncommon profession for women in Pakistan. Naseeb Jamal, a resident of Karachi said that in order to strengthen the role of women in society, parents should trust their daughters and make them skilled along with education.
Skilled daughters will be more proud of their parents than their sons. Naseeb Jamal, who works as an electrician said. He was blessed with 8 daughters by nature. Ttraditional rhetoric on the birth of girls by relatives and the family inspired Naseeb Jamal to think about why there is a difference between sons and daughters.
With his determination and enthusiasm for gender discrimination in society, he started taking his daughters to the repair shop. Naseeb Jamal said that when he started taking his first two daughters with him to the shop when they were about 6 and 4 years old, however, people started discriminating against his act, according to Jamal.
Naseeb Jamal’s two eldest daughters when turned 13 and 16, he stopped bringing them to the shop, but by the time, his daughters had already mastered the work of electrician.
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