Here we go again! Another year, another depressing number.

According to the 2025 Global Gender Gap Report, Pakistan now ranks dead last: 148 out of 148 countries. Yes, rock bottom — not even crawling forward like a country that learns from its mistakes.

Last year we were 145 and before that we scraped a 'high' of 57.7% gender parity. This year it's slipped to 56.7%, a freefall with no bottom in sight. And no, that decimal point doesn't make it any less of a national embarrassment.

Peel back the report and it only gets more damning. Out of four key areas measured, Pakistan has flunked across the board.

We've crashed to 147th - a dismal 22.8% — in economic participation and opportunity. Even when educated and allowed to work, women are pushed into pigeonholes — teaching, medicine or nursing — while the rest are dumped into unpaid farming, housework, dead-end jobs or pushed out of paid work altogether.

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