Twitter reacts to only five women in Shehbaz’s cabinet

Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif’s cabinet members took oath on Tuesday. In the new setup, the cabinet has 31 federal ministers, three ministers of state and three advisers in the first phase, as has been said by the coalition government.

As usual, the federal cabinet includes less ratio of females. The list includes:

Marriyum Aurangzeb – Minister for Information

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Hina Rabbani Khar- Minister for Foreign Affairs,

Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha- Adviser to PM on Finance

Sherry Rehman- Minister of state for Climate change

Following the oath-taking, social media users criticise the induction of only five females in the new federal cabinet.

It’s truly a shame that among 30 federal ministers we only have three women ministers. pic.twitter.com/nrtxscgGSI
— Nighat Dad (@nighatdad) April 18, 2022

Same old faces & hardly any women. Pathetic. https://t.co/1DC7jVN8Fg
— 🌸 (@meinhiburihun) April 19, 2022

3 women out of 30 federal ministers and 2 ministers of state sworn in today. Women get 33% reserved seats in Parliament but not well represented in the cabinet. #PakistaniCabinet https://t.co/vPGYo8dCht
— Annie Zaman အန်နီဇမန်း (@Natrani) April 19, 2022

I thought PPP and PMLN are quite progressive as compare to others but no nothing new happened instead of that it’s quite shameful to have just five women in the cabinet of so called PDM and Criminals have been appointed as the Ministers of many important ministries. https://t.co/kjYYMkPq7e
— J110 (@jawismm) April 19, 2022

Wasn’t PDM a beacon of feminism against misogynist IK? Sorry to burst your bubble. https://t.co/Uv1n3vOCrc
— Osama Bin Liaqat Mir (@oblmir) April 19, 2022

Glad to see strong women in Federal cabinet. However, you are right 3 out of 30 isn't enough. Should be 50%. Parliament only has 20% women representation. Should be increased to 50%. Concerning that numbers elected on General seats have gone down from 16 in 2008 to 8 in 2018.
— Bushra Gohar (@BushraGohar) April 19, 2022