Social Policy and Women in Pakistan

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dc.contributor.authorBeenish Ijaz Butt
dc.contributor.authorSupervised by Prof. Dr. Amir Zada Asad
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-01T04:59:44Z
dc.date.available2026-09-01T04:59:44Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis research workis related to Social Policy and Womenin Pakistan. Woman statusisa critical issue all over the world, especially in developing countries. Main features of women's lower status include poor health, illiteracy, poverty, violence by family members, and economic dependency. They face discrimination in all walksoflife since childhood providing asubordinate status in the society. Major issues of women like legal safeguards, violence, poor health conditions, illiteracy, economic dependency,poverty, disinheritance by their parents’ property and lack of government and state support are discussed in this study. Primary data were collected through a structured interview guide and purposive sampling. Secondary data (qualitative and quantitative) were collected through books, journals, national and internationalreports. The results showed that despite the constitutional and legal safeguards available to women in Pakistan, they face violence, dispossessed, insulted and deformed. The law is unable to secure them as it is not in accordance with their socio-cultural values. Socio-cultural values are emerging from Islamic Law butstate laws are in contrast to it, resulting in women poorstatus. Women's health conditions are very poor because of inefficient health delivery services and women mobility to avail the facility. Non-availability of female schools tosomeextent and poverty add to the femaleilliteracy. Economically, they are dependent, not allowed to earn and no proper system of social security available to womanin Pakistan. Soit is concluded that the existing laws, the state’s lack of will towards women's issues and poverty are the major cause of their lower status in Pakistani society.
dc.identifier.citationButt, Beenish Ijaz, and Amir Zada Asad. "Social policy and women status in Pakistan: a situation analysis." Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences 1, no. 1 (2016): 47-62.
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.uop.edu.pk/123456789/497
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDepartment of Social Work, University of Peshawar
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTh-14740; Th-14740
dc.titleSocial Policy and Women in Pakistan
dc.typeThesis
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