Excluding Women’s from Political Institution through Educational Deprivation

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue I, January 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

Excluding Women’s from Political Institution through Educational Deprivation

 Younas Khan¹, Mussawar Shah², Fakhrudin³, Naushad Khan⁴, Atta Ullah⁵, Rehan⁶, Zakir Ullah⁷

^1,3,5,6,7 Mphil Scholar in Sociology, Department of Rural Sociology, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan
² Professor & Chairman Department of Rural Sociology, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan
⁴Pro-vice chancellor, Islamia College University Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract:-The major objective of the present study was to examine educational impediments to women political status in District Dir (L)-Pakistan. A sample size of 186 of different political organization was randomly selected from total population 714. A conceptual frame work comprises of dependent variable women political status and independent variable’s educational deprivation. Moreover, dependent variable was indexed and cross tabulated with independent variable. Chi-square test statistics was applied to ascertain the relationship between dependent and independent variable respectively. In Bi-variate analysis, a highly significant (P=0.000) association was found between dependent variable women political status and independent variable indicators; Higher is the rate of education more would be women in politics; education proved to be true instrument in making right decision to poll; education empower women to work shoulder to shoulder with men; higher rate of democracy sustenance is embodied in education for all; and education enlightens political awareness among masses. The study concluded that, Education has been rewarded to be a male dominated and male leading institution. Dynamics of female involvement shoulder to shoulder with men are if taken in account from the developed countries, may lead to changing this scenario, which will ensure to dethrone the partisan character of male dominance.

Keywords: Educational Impediments, Women Political Status, Pukhtun society.

I. INTRODUCTION

Women’s empowerment is a phenomenon related with several sticky points such as “voice, resources & rights. It comprises power, perceptions, resources and relationships based on access to sources, resources, and achievements. Empowerment of women is usually tasked up with economic supremacy and access to resources both inside and outside domestic pertaining to and independence of expression [1][2][3][4][5][6].

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