Women Empowerment in Pakistan: Issues and Progress

Authors

  • Basharat Hussain M Phil Scholar, Department NIP Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Manahil Touqueer Satti M Phil Scholar, Department Pakistan Study NUML Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Sharafat Ali BS International Relation, NUML Islamabad, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71085/sss.03.03.521

Keywords:

Women Empowerment, Pakistan, Gender Inequality, Feminism, Human Security, Growth

Abstract

Women empowerment is extensively recognized as an essential riding pressure of sustainable development, social justice, and inclusive governance. In Pakistan engrained patriarchy socio-cultural norms and nearby differences have factually constrained woman admittance to education, employment and decision-making roles rising a complex landscape of challenging situations and prospects and this study severely studies the issues and progress of woman empowerment in Pakistan via an incorporation of theoretic perspectives and primary empirical evidence. A qualitative research design was employed, incorporating semi-structured interviews with women from diverse socio-financial backgrounds, educators, policymakers, and civil society actors throughout metropolis and rural regions. Purposive sampling ensured that individuals’ tales had been relevant to the examines goals and content analysis of interview records recognized ordinary troubles, styles, and strategies followed through ladies to navigate structural and cultural obstacles. Findings monitor that while development has been made in training, political illustration, and financial responsibilities, girls maintain to face systemic boundaries, which encompass constrained decision-making power, socio-cultural restrictions, and unequal get admission to resources and women organization resilience and coping methods arose as vital issues in achieving incremental empowerment in specific in rural and undersized parts. This study gives to hypothetical allowance via provided that a nuanced empirically grounded assessment of women empowerment in Pakistan and notifies representatives’ public society, and growth practitioners on policies to embellish comprehensive participation concern and social alteration.

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Published

2024-09-21