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The electoral gender gap
July 11, 2021
Gender gap indicators are useful in quantifying the level of exclusion faced by women. One such indicator, and a very crucial one, is the level of exclusion in the ownership of national identity documentation; for Pakistan, this would be the ownership of National Identity Cards (NIC).
The NIC is essential for a Pakistani woman to claim her rights; this could be the right to claim her inheritance, or to qualify for the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), to open a bank account, to register a mobile sim, and arguably the most important one: to cast her vote.
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The phone rang: “Hunt if you don t think I am very moved right now, you re one dumb son-of-a-bitch.”
It was my good friend, Vernon Jordan, who at the time was supporting his longtime friend Hillary Clinton. But the emotions of the past half-century were streaming to the fore for the longtime civil rights leader. The serious possibility of the first black president was emotional.
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For four decades, I talked with Vernon at least every couple of weeks, sometimes more often. I ve never known a more charming or engaging person.
He was a legendary figure in American life: a top civil rights figure, a prominent business leader, a confidant to presidents. If judgment were the coin of the realm, he would have been a multi-billionaire.