Maria Umer – Promoting Pakistani Women becomes the essence of an achiever
Maria Umer completed her formal education by doing Masters in English Literature and then served as a ESL Teacher in a private school and worked for a Pakistan’s premiere job portal i.e. Rozee.pk as she earned quite more, comparativly as a teacher. After revealing her oDesk profile, she comprehended that direct contracts with client scan make her more earnings after-which she took on further jobs freelancing them to her nieces initialy, then to their friends, and further-on to their classmates.
This is when Maria stepped in the business world through an Online-Job opening the doors of further big opportunities, consequently founding ‘The Women Digital League’ – starting as an urbanized and small content-creating company, emphasizing on the Provision of Training Opportunities to the women in Pakistan’s rural parts through online medium, now has expanded into ‘The Digital League’ that offers a vast variety of online services, digital solutions to the corporate individuals and clients; recieved headlines as a featured story in ‘The Forbes’-magazine and got mentioned in websites like Virgin and Google. DL, recieves 80% company business from LinkedIn, works through Social-Media, never needing an official website.
Maria, dedicated to help in women working opportunities, also involved with a NGO to train people in the the Northern Areas. Pakistan’s female education sector lacks social acceptance, faces safety issues and obstacle work opportunities, even when educational crisis can lead to larger issues. Indeed, Maria is a true game changer who made a mark as a successful woman-entrepreneur in a male-conquered IT field.
Young-women who want to step-forward, establish a succesful career and get authorization in the market-place, Maria assuredly plays the definite role as an ideal and mentor to them. Maria centralizing the Pakistan’s platform, is a confident world-wide entrepreneur, key-player of the country’s tech scene and a trailblazer in the female entrepreneurial rebellion.
Her sheer dedication and hardwork has earned her big in Pakistan as she has not only achieved her-self a mark but also has given a platform to the strength, courage and talent of Pakistani Women.
