Browsing by Author "Ayesha Siddique"

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    A study of women empowerment in family settings
    (UMT.Lahore, 2013) Ayesha Siddique
    Women Empowerment has become a matter of interest for many social scientists recently as it is considered to be a major goal for developing countries in order to pace their development process. Women make up more than more than half of the total population of many developing and under developing countries. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the differences between working and non-working women on Women Empowerment Questionnaire (WEQ) in family settings. Moreover, the relationship of education, family system and years of marriage with empowerment level of women was also explored. The sample of the study (N=100) consisted of married women including 50 working and 50 non-working women. A self-designed questionnaire (Women Empowerment Questionnaire) was used to measure the empowerment level of the women on the subscales of Economic, Social, Interpersonal and Legal Empowerment. The results suggested that that there was no significant difference in the level of empowerment between working and non-working women. Family system (nuclear and joint) also did not appear to have effect on the empowerment level of the women. However, significant differences were found in the empowerment level with reference to the years of marriage of the women, particularly in interpersonal and legal domain of empowerment. Similarly, significant differences were found in the interpersonal and legal empowerment on the basis of education of the women participants.
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    Knowledge, attitude, practices and perception regarding genetically modified food in the population of district lahore, pakistan
    (UMT, Lhr, 2022) Ayesha Siddique
    Genetically modified (GM) food is playing an increasingly important role in the global food supply chain but is still a controversial topic with consumers. This study aims to better understand consumer knowledge. Attitude, perception, and practices of GM foods in Pakistan. As there are poor KAPs studies (Knowledge, attitude, perception, and practice studies) in Pakistan, the main objectives of the present study were to determine the KAPs regarding GMOs food, Calculate the KAPs score and observe the correlation between KAPs regarding GMOs food in a selected study area in Lahore Pakistan. A community based random cross-sectional study was adopted to process the study a total of 1000 participant the data was collected from District Lahore. The questionnaire consisted of KAPs towards GMOs food in district Lahore. The relationship between all variables was checked by t-Test: (Two-Sample Assuming Equal Variances and score by single ANOVA test) the score value was significant if p<0.05. The present study finds out that knowledge and perception have significant value regarding age, practices and attitude have no significant value regarding age, knowledge have significant value regarding economic status. Attitude, perception and practices has no significant score value regarding economic status. Attitude have no significant value regarding gender, knowledge, practices and perception have significant value regarding gender. The perception has significant value regarding religion, town, marital status and Language, knowledge, attitude and practices have no significant value regarding religion, town, marital status and Language. Knowledge has no significant value regarding education, practices, perception, and attitude have significant value regarding education. Knowledge and perception have significant regarding occupation, Attitude, and practices have no significant value regarding occupation. The correlation between perception and knowledge only shows a moderate association between these two variables. The results showed that there was little KAPS that there should be a need for proper awareness about GMOs food. The understanding from the current study could be used to improve the delivery of an efficient education message relevant to GMOs food about KAPs in Lahore
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    A study of women empowerment in family settings
    (University of Management and Technology, 2013) Ayesha Siddique
    Women Empowerment has become a matter of interest for many social scientists recently as it is considered to be a major goal for developing countries in order to pace their development process. Women make up more than more than half of the total population of many developing and under developing countries. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the differences between working and non-working women on Women Empowerment Questionnaire (WEQ) in family settings. Moreover, the relationship of education, family system and years of marriage with empowerment level of women was also explored. The sample of the study (N=100) consisted of married women including 50 working and 50 non-working women. A self-designed questionnaire (Women Empowerment Questionnaire) was used to measure the empowerment level of the women on the subscales of Economic, Social, Interpersonal and Legal Empowerment. The results suggested that that there was no significant difference in the level of empowerment between working and non-working women. Family system (nuclear and joint) also did not appear to have effect on the empowerment level of the women. However, significant differences were found in the empowerment level with reference to the years of marriage of the women, particularly in interpersonal and legal domain of empowerment. Similarly, significant differences were found in the interpersonal and legal empowerment on the basis of education of the women participants.