{"id":70496,"date":"2025-03-28T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/28\/karachi-women-power-female-electricians-roshni-baji-pakistan"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:00:13","slug":"how-karachis-women-got-into-power-the-female-electricians-lighting-up-homes-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70496","title":{"rendered":"How Karachi\u2019s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hundred women, known as the Light Sisters, have learned to fix appliances and safely install fittings, challenging gender stereotypes and providing opportunities in the male-dominated energy sector<\/p>\n<p>A cardboard sign reading \u201cElectrician available\u201d hangs outside a house in the Karachi neighbourhood of Shah Latif Town. The name and phone number of a man, along with his expertise in repairing sewing machines and water pumps is listed underneath.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the electrician is 30-year-old Nazia Seher. The phone number belongs to her husband, Mohammad Rehan. Seher is among 200 certified female electricians trained by a private electricity firm in Karachi under a programme called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ke.com.pk\/public-safety-k-electric-cautions-against-kite-flying-near-power-lines\/\">Roshni Baji<\/a><\/em> (Light Sisters).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/28\/karachi-women-power-female-electricians-roshni-baji-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hundred women, known as the Light Sisters, have learned to fix appliances and safely install fittings, challenging gender stereotypes and providing opportunities in the male-dominated energy sectorA cardboard sign reading \u201cElectrician available\u201d ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,60,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496\/revisions\/70497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}