Pakistan women gradually breaking gender stereotypes, social taboos
In socially conservative and heavily patriarchal Pakistan, Mehrunissa, Shabana, Shakila Bano and Chand Bibi are gradually breaking gender stereotypes and social taboos with each passing day here in the country’s commercial capital.
The sight of women filling fuel in vehicles at a petrol pump is not something Pakistani people are accustomed to.
“Initially customers who came to fill fuel used to stare at us and one could see they were wondering what we were doing working at a fuel station,” says Shabana, a woman attendant at a fuel station owned by the Total Parco petroleum company here.
