At every economic level in Pakistan, what resources exist are not equitably distributed between men and women, girls and boys. Girls are less welcome in our families than boys. There are many congratulations for the birth of a boy, but we don't hear so much rejoicing when a girl is born. Our girl children are more likely to be malnourished than boys. They are less likely to be taken to hospital when they are sick, and they are more likely to die in infancy.
Girls are much less likely to go to school than boys, and much more likely to leave school early.
They get married earlier than boys and start having children while they are still in their teens. In Pakistan, mother of many sons is admired and has status in her community. Compared with her all other women are inferior, including for example professionally-qualified women such as myself. Even now I find that I would be considered much more successful in my own country if I had had several boy children as well as becoming an Under Secretary-general of the United Nations. If these are the attitudes educated women find among their own friends and acquaintances, consider how it must be for poor women.