Pakistanis have bias against women
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations claimed that 99.89 percent Pakistanis have bias against women.
The UN made this startling disclosure in its report release on Monday.
According to the UN report, 99.89% of Pakistanis had at least one gender bias between 2017-22. The percentage was 98.52 of those with at least two biases against women.
The share of people with no bias at all was just 0.11%, according to report.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported this in its updated Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI). The GSNI takes into account political, economic, education and physical integrity metrics – using data from the World Values Survey. It is an international project that examines how values and beliefs are changing globally.
By gender,100% of women and 99.79% of men have at least one bias. Also, the share of women with no gender bias is 0% among women and 0.21% among men from 2017-21.
The prejudices “are widespread among men and women, indicating that these biases are deeply embedded and influences both men and women to similar degrees”, the UN report adds.
The index shows “no improvement in biases against women in a decade,” the UNDP said, “despite powerful global and local campaigns for women’s rights” such as MeToo.
For instance, globally 69% of the world’s population believes that men are better political leaders than women. Nonetheless, only 27% believe that women must have the same rights as men.
Man can beat his wife
One-forth of the population also considers it justifiable for a man to beat his wife.
Prejudices create “hurdles” for women and are “manifested in a dismantling of women’s rights in many parts of the world,” the report said.
“Without tackling biased gender social norms, we will not achieve gender equality or the Sustainable Development Goals,” it said.
