Socio-Political Cultural Impedes of Women Participation in Politics of Balochistan
Keywords:
Patriarchy- Barriers- Legislation- women Empowerment Religious Entities Political parties- Social, Political and Economic Institutions.Abstract
Women equality with men is almost necessary in all aspect of life. But the
current scenario of policies has witnesses that a woman does not get equal
opportunities like men to participate in political affairs. The objective of
this scholarly study was to identify bottlenecks in the women‟s engagement
in politics. The study was qualitative model using descriptive model. The
independent variables of social institutions, political entities and religion
were tested against data to understand their effect on the dependent
variable of political empowerment of women and identify challenges. For
data collection semi structure interviews were utilized and participants
were selected on the basis of snow ball sampling. The scope of the study is
limited to Balochistan; therefore, the participant included female political
workers, current and former legislature from Balochistan. The Data was
organized and codified manually by author and was analyzed using
thematic analysis. The results depict that women‟s political empowerment
in province remains an unfulfilled dream by the virtue of barriers such as
inadequate legislation, patriarchal values in society, religious entities,
political parties. The legislation is an important and effective tool to
empower females politically.
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