Pakistan First Lady: Women face issues that men don't face

Pakistan’s First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari says women face issues that their male colleagues don't have to face.

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00:00As women, we often discuss how we are not just subject to the regular standards.

00:06We are also subject to even higher standards in what we wear and what we say and how we

00:11do our hair.

00:12Do you believe that that's evolving?

00:16I would hope and pray that this evolves.

00:19However, I will give you an example.

00:21Well, it's heartening to see the number of women leaders across the world today.

00:25I still think that we need to face issues that our male colleagues don't necessarily

00:29need to face.

00:31I can give you an example.

00:32I was in an interview with a prominent international news organization, and at the time we were

00:38talking about the crackdown on our party, the fear I had for my father's life in jail.

00:44This was his 2019 persecution against him, not to be confused with the 90s persecution

00:49against him.

00:51And at the end of the interview, I still get asked, what do you like to cook?

00:56So as women-

00:57What do you like to cook?

00:58But as women, we have to still prove today that yes, we can cook, we can clean, and we

01:04can lead.

01:05And we must simply have to endure and keep going.