The latest decade has seen the inclusion of more women in public administration in Pakistan, signalling a healthy shift towards inclusivity and a diverse approach in public service recruitment. Though the pace is quite low, “every drop counts in making a river”. With barriers diminishing gradually, the future is about to change with a healthy number of female leaders in public sectors, offering a transformation towards community governance where an emotional and caring nature can be used to work on public grievances from within. That is the need of the hour, an increased number of female public administrators.

Be it biologically or socially constructed; women do have a more empathetic build due to their childbearing responsibilities. A study from the University of California collected data from 300,000 participants across 57 countries, to assess the “theory of mind”; and found an advantage with females statistically in recognising mental state and feelings through eye expressions irrespective of familiarity or cultural associations. This confirms higher emotional intelligence, compassion, and perceptiveness than male participants. 

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