1m women supported through expansion of digital wallets.
Source
UNICEF — https://www.unicef.org/pakistan/reports/unicef-pakistan-annual-report-2025. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Digitized welfare can increase women's direct financial access.
What it does not prove: A wallet is an access channel, not control: opening accounts for a million women records a change in payment mode, not whether she, rather than a male relative, holds the handset, the PIN or the decision over the money. It is also a count of women supported through one expansion, against a Gender Inequality Index of 0.536 that the delivery change leaves untouched.
Memory hook: 1m women given wallets → payment rails changed, bargaining power unproven
Rebuts the claim: "Women's financial exclusion is a cultural problem the state cannot reach" — switching the payment instrument moved a million women into accounts in their own name without waiting for norms to shift.