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Dutch-Pakistani Iffat Rose-Gill (40) is a gender equality activist and the founder of The Code to Change, an organisation improving women’s access to the digital economy. She is surprised by the ongoing integration issues here, but loves the Netherlands’ multiculturalism and the fact that even her local market stocks a taste of home.
How did you end up in the Netherlands?
I moved to Amsterdam in 2011 to join my husband, who was from the Netherlands. Due to my work in Pakistan on women’s rights and the digital gap, I was invited to a lot of international conferences and we met at one of those conferences abroad.