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The writer teaches politics and sociology at Lums. GENDER inequality takes a variety of forms in Pakistan, but a fundamental one and one whose rectification may help address all other variants as well is political inequality. The constituents of gender-based variation in politics include barriers to voting, barriers to seeking elected office, barriers to access within political parties, and barriers to representation in policymaking and governance. In recent years, there has been a spate of excellent academic and policy research that captures the baseline context of gender-based political inequality in the country. What’s being captured, however, makes for grim reading. ....
Cluster leader and Research Fellow The lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic are starkly divided along gender lines, and the pandemic has already exacerbated gender inequalities within the home and in the labour market across countries. Building on our previous work to understand gender gaps in democratic accountability in Pakistan, which centres on the role of household inequality, we are conducting research to understand the gendered nature of lived experiences and impacts of the pandemic in one of Pakistan’s major metropolitan cities: Lahore. We hope the findings can inform a gender-sensitive policy response by highlighting areas where women are facing particular disadvantages or vulnerabilities, and where there is heightened risk of stalled or reversed progress. ....