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@paradigmshiftpk.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:08 AM

A recent #HarassmentRuling has sparked debate over the scope of workplace protections in Pakistan.

Critics argue the judgment overlooks key legal developments and could weaken protections for #WomenAtWork.

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@mdstamper.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 8:04 PM

“Marketing” by Chia Yu Chian (Malaysian) - Oil on canvas / 1971 - National Gallery Singapore (Singapore) #WomenInArt #ChiaYuChian #NationalGallerySingapore #MalaysianArt #AsianArt #WomenAtWork #ModernArt #art #artText #arte #SocialRealism #Modernism #1970sArt #MalaysianArtist #SoutheastAsianArt

Malaysian artist Chia Yu Chian turns an everyday transaction into a densely observed portrait of social life. Rather than monumentalizing a single person, he lets individuals overlap, bend, wait, examine goods, converse, and negotiate within a shared public space. The title “Marketing” uses an older sense of the word like “going to market to buy provisions.” Women dominate the scene, appearing as shoppers, vendors, and participants in the informal economy that sustained daily urban life.

A crowded open-air market fills this vertical oil painting with women, produce, and overlapping bodies. Closest to us, a dark-haired woman in a vivid coral-red top sits with her back turned, her patterned skirt spreading across the lower edge. Nearby is vendor in brown seated behind baskets and low tables overflowing with bananas, leafy vegetables, red and green fruit, and other goods. Behind them, women cluster closely together: one in a lavender headscarf and white clothing raises a hand toward her face, while others wear yellow, turquoise, green, pink, and patterned garments. Faces emerge and disappear among the tightly packed figures. A pale mint-green background surrounds the group, intensifying the saturated colors and compressed bustle of the market.

Born in Johor in 1936, Chia developed his practice between Malaysia, Singapore, and Paris. He studied privately with Nanyang painter Chen Wen Hsi before receiving a French government scholarship to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. After returning to Malaysia, Chia increasingly focused on ordinary people and the rapidly changing life of Kuala Lumpur. His later paintings became especially attentive to workers, street vendors, families, hospital patients, and others rarely treated as heroic subjects. In “Marketing,” thick outlines, flattened space, and exuberant color transform a familiar market into a record of human proximity: noisy, crowded, imperfect, and alive.

@drkallschmidt.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 2:09 PM

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@thefridaytimes.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 8:27 AM

Marriage itself is not the problem. Quraysh Khattak examines how unequal household responsibilities can push educated Pakistani women out of professional life—and what the country loses when their skills go unused.
www.thefridaytimes.com/25-Sep-2026/...

#WomenInPakistan #WomenAtWork #Pakistan

@thefridaytimes.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 1:49 PM

Pakistan’s fishing industry relies on far more than the workers at sea. Women repair nets, process and preserve fish, sort catches and support marketing — work that adds economic value but often remains undocumented.

By Mekaeel Sadiq Gondal
www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Sep-2026/...

#WomenAtWork

@thefridaytimes.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 1:06 PM

🎣 Pakistan’s fishing industry does not begin when a boat leaves shore. Women repair nets, sort, clean, process and market fish — labour that sustains coastal economies but often remains invisible in official statistics.

By Mekaeel Sadiq Gondal

www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Sep-2026/...

#WomenAtWork