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Maria Umar is one of the many women in Pakistan who is overcoming gender stereotypes by empowering women to work online.
‘The Women’s Digital League’ is the brainchild of Umar and is an online platform that offers digital training and job opportunities for Pakistani women.
In particular, it offers a way for women to work while still at home – something that remains an issue in parts of the country where families discourage women to leave the home in pursuit of work. The idea stemmed from Maria’s own experiences.
In an interview with Dawn, Maria explains:
“I came from a really conservative background and I was not allowed to go out without a male chaperone. I wanted to work but the opportunities were few.”
“I started teaching at a school but they fired me after three years when I became pregnant.
“I didn’t know what to do, so I started looking online because I knew my family was not going to allow me to pursue any other profession. I thought nobody would object to online work, but once I started giving shape to WDL, it just grew and my family saw the commitment I had to my work.”
Umar’s initiative brings work to the women, who can join the digital outsourcing company and work as freelancers.
In another interview with Mashable, Maria says: “Girls themselves are becoming more empowered and asking for their right to education.
“Unfortunately not very many actually utilise that education in the formal sector… Families discourage girls from working outside due to the security situation and lack of social acceptance.”
She is applauded for being one of the key leaders in promoting entrepreneurship in Pakistan, by giving women the freedom to work on their own terms.

Majority of the people living in this society still believes that women do not need to be confident and independent, and are not supposed to have a vision or perspective in life, it is believed that they are made to take care of kitchen and household only, but there are some respectable and literate families who support their girls, and give them courage to achieve what they want to So similarly here is an inspirational story of a girl who was born on september 19, 1990 in Shimshal Village, Hunza Gojal, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan, who had a dream to not just become a high altitude mountaineer but climbing all the highest peaks of the world in shortest period, and we call her SAMINA BAIG. She is the first Pakitani and youngest muslim women and third person to climb Mounteverest then she conquered all the seven highest peaks of the world in just 8 months, at the age of 23. "It was my dream to raise Pakistan's flag on Mounteverest said Samina. Her family supported her which was her strength and gave her courage to fulfill her dream.