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Argument evidence · Tier 1

Women in Pakistan earn about 25% less per hour than men in the ILO analysis.

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Women in Pakistan earn about 25% less per hour than men in the ILO analysis. · 2025ILO · 2025Source named — not yet verified
Source

ILO — https://www.ilo.org/publications/mind-gap-why-women-pakistan-earn-less-men-and-what-we-can-do-about-it. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.

What it proves

Gender economic inequality reflects labour-market structures, enforcement and informality as well as education/choice.

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What it does not prove: Because the gap is measured per hour, it cannot be explained away by women working shorter weeks — but it is an unadjusted comparison, not a like-for-like test of men and women in the same occupation with the same schooling and experience. It also only captures those in paid work, which in Pakistan excludes most women, so it describes the penalty inside employment rather than the larger penalty of exclusion from it.

Memory hook: 25% less per hour → the gap survives after working time is equalised

Rebuts the claim: "Women earn less mainly because they work fewer hours" — the ILO figure is hourly, so the gap persists with working time held constant.

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