‘Direction of travel’ is downwards

TWO days after the federal budget was announced by the finance minister, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Report 2025 revealed that Pakistan was ranked last amongst 148 countries.

This is an absolutely extraordinary situation for Pakistan and its women, especially when these findings disclosed that this score had actually deteriorated consecutively over the last two years showing a continuous and consistent downward trend in the gender parity ratio.

Since this information...