Abstract
The cultural values about gender inequalities and their influence on women’s health is the subject of this paper. The aim is to know the association of cultural values, their background regarding socio-economic characteristics and beliefs about gender inequalities and the health of women. Also, policy measures with a view to the findings are considered. For this, quantitative and qualitative data was collected from the rural areas of Faisalabad and Multan Districts situated in Punjab, Pakistan. For quantitative study, a sample of 500 rural women was selected, for interviews and for qualitative study, 8 FGDs were conducted with the rural women belonging to different socio-economic backgrounds. Qualitative information was analyzed through content analysis techniques and SPSS was used to analyze quantitative data. The results showed that gender inequality was positively related with the mental and physical health of women. The recommendations are that the government should monitor all the tiers of the social structure to diagnose the limitations so that the programs to enhance equalities are promoted. Key Words: Gender Inequalities, Cultural Values, Health
Highlights
Pakistan is a diverse country having four provinces, which further divide people on the basis of cultural values, norms and beliefs along with socio-economic patterns
The participants were concerned with the influence of traditional cultural values on women’s health
It was concluded that qualitative data research findings provided the opportunity to explore particular issues relating to effects of gender inequality on the health of rural women and were strongly supported by group participants’ discussions
Summary
Pakistan is a diverse country having four provinces, which further divide people on the basis of cultural values, norms and beliefs along with socio-economic patterns. People of all the provinces practice various tribal and customary traditions associated with the specific province. These cultural values and traditions are important in their own way but their negative implication in a society is responsible for the evolution of different factors in the country and one of the fine example is gender equality that has affected the women in terms of their peaceful survival and in terms of their basic right of health (Marlen, 2019). The emphasis here is on the harmful effects of gender inequality, along with the restrictive cultural standards and values for women and gender minorities (Digitale, 2019)
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