Masuma Hasan is a Pakistani civil servant, diplomat, and scholar who serves as Chairman of The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs and President of the Board of Governors of Aurat (Women's) Foundation. In her public service career, she rose to the position of Cabinet Secretary, the highest post in the civil service. She was Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV), where she chaired the Group 77 nations, and was the first woman faculty member to head a management and consultancy organization in the public sector. Her struggle to make a place for herself in the patriarchal administrative and political system in her country has become a landmark in the larger movement for gender equality and women's rights.
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