Activist to Entrepreneur – The Role of Social Enterprise in Supporting Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan

This report sets out to establish how well social enterprise really does address gender inequality and women's empowerment in Pakistan. It is part of a series of reports commissioned by the British Council to look at the link between social enterprise and women's empowerment across five countries: Brazil, India, Pakistan, the UK and the US. It explores the strengths and weaknesses of social enterprise as a mechanism for empowering women and considers different ways it is being used to this end. It also examines the idea that social enterprise as a business model might advance women's empowerment even when that is not a specific objective.