Summary : | Traditionally, politics in Pakistan has been a male domain, even despite us having a female prime minister way before even many in the Western world could manage to elect women politicians as leaders of the nation. The irony, however, is that it is the woman politician who spends more time in parliament – as men continue their sparring in rallies and at press talks. According to Fafen’s 2022-2023 report on parliamentary performance, women have outperformed men in both the National Assembly and the Senate with 36 per cent of the agenda coming up in the National Assembly put forward by them and 30 per cent of it in the Senate. Women parliamentarians also attended more sessions, with 66 per cent attendance in the National Assembly compared to 53 per cent by men. In the Senate, it was 68 per cent attendance for women as compared to 56 per cent by men. |