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EMPOWERMENT OF RURAL WOMEN AT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL IN DISTRICT NANKANA SAHIB

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).09      10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).09      Published : Mar 2022

Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib

Abstract

    This quantitative research was conducted in District Nankana Sahib. The size of the sample was 150 Female respondents. A convenient sampling technique was used for the assortment of the respondents. The questionnaire was used as a tool. The results revealed that the empowerment level of rural women in the household is low in district Nankana Sahib. Women are facing a lot of problems that create the main hurdle in the empowerment status of rural women. The result showed that 46.7 percent of women were illiterate and 26.7 percent of women had a primary level of education, 75.3 percent of women had no right to get a share in the inheritance property,only 39.3percent of women took decisions for the selection of their children spouse, 68.7percent women were monitoring child rearing activities, 54.0percent women were not taking decisions about disposable income for expenses. There is a highly positive association between age and decision-making autonomy, income and decision-making autonomy, and education and decision-making.

    Women Empowerment, Decision Making autonomy, Household Management, Women Education, Property Rights, Physical mobility, Gender Discrimination, Health facilities.

    (1) Farkhanda Anjum
    Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
    (2) Raheel Fatima
    M.Phil. Scholar, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Kanwal Asghar Awan
    Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Punjab, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Anjum, Farkhanda, Raheel Fatima, and Kanwal Asghar Awan. 2022. "Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib." Global Sociological Review, VII (I): 82-93 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).09

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    HARVARD : ANJUM, F., FATIMA, R. & AWAN, K. A. 2022. Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib. Global Sociological Review, VII, 82-93.

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    MHRA : Anjum, Farkhanda, Raheel Fatima, and Kanwal Asghar Awan. 2022. "Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib." Global Sociological Review, VII: 82-93

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    MLA : Anjum, Farkhanda, Raheel Fatima, and Kanwal Asghar Awan. "Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib." Global Sociological Review, VII.I (2022): 82-93 Print.

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    OXFORD : Anjum, Farkhanda, Fatima, Raheel, and Awan, Kanwal Asghar (2022), "Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib", Global Sociological Review, VII (I), 82-93

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    TURABIAN : Anjum, Farkhanda, Raheel Fatima, and Kanwal Asghar Awan. "Empowerment of Rural Women at Household Level in District Nankana Sahib." Global Sociological Review VII, no. I (2022): 82-93. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).09