Gender issues regarding low income families in Multan: An analysis through Entity Relation diagram and its precedence representation by Hierarchy Chart.

Basit Habib,Shahzad Mahmood,Sidra Mahboob,Sumaira Noor

doi:10.24297/jssr.v11i1.6035

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Abstract

The study is done to analyze the family gender issues in such families which are low income. Rigid cultural patterns have major effects on the lives of the women. Due to these cultural patterns women are considered inferior in families and society. So it is very clear that now due to such cultural patterns and customs women are stuck of in different type of gender issues. Women from low income family status have to face many restrictions and constraint during their life span. They are less empowered, not have decision making power in home. They are also to face the mobility issue due to security and due to her modesty even she has no right regarding her property, access in health facilities, fear of violence and not allowed to participate in the economic activities. All these issues and their relationship in this article is seen by using some common entities in these issues and there relevance along with this after understanding the relevance a hierarchy of these issues is developed by their dependence on each other

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Gender refers to the social roles and standing differences between male and female in society
Gender is defined as the social roles which assign to male female by the society and these roles define by the social, cultural and economic institutions of society (Anderson. 1988)
Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used by the researcher to conduct the research about the examined the gender issues within the low income families of the Multan

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Gender refers to the social roles and standing differences between male and female in society. Gender is defined as the social roles which assign to male female by the society and these roles define by the social, cultural and economic institutions of society Today women are playing very vital role in the economic progress and working for reducing the poverty from the society. No doubt women are participating in economic activities but they are still less paid than the man. These wage gaps are due to some gender discriminated practices which are creating hurdle for the women empowerment. It became worse when female has to face the sexual exploitation due to their low socio economic status

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