A study of women empowerment in family settings

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dc.contributor.authorAyesha Siddique
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-28T16:19:46Z
dc.date.available2014-11-28T16:19:46Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractWomen 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1356
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Management and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectBS Thesisen_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectWomen Empowermenten_US
dc.subjectWorking Womenen_US
dc.subjectFamily Systemen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectMarriageen_US
dc.titleA study of women empowerment in family settingsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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