THE Global Gender Report 2025 is dark enough to recast the way Pakistan is viewed by the world. The country’s descent to the bottom 148th rank, with a gender parity mark slipping from last year’s 57pc to 56.7pc, is an unsettling comment on how male-centric narratives and cultural mores push women into a social void.

The report claims that this year’s results record a second consecutive dip from the best economic score of 57.7pc in 2023, while Pakistan’s parity in economic participation and opportunity sank by 1.3pc.

A closer look at the four key indices reveals that Pakistan’s was a downward slope on the performance graph: it came in at 147 in economic........

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