Understanding the Narratives of Marriage and Empowerment Among Single Pakistani Women
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: MarriagehasconsistentlyheldamajorpositioninthelivesofwomeninPakistan.Remainingunmarriedisnotonlysociallyunacceptablebutalsoseenasaviolationoftheculturaldominanceoftheinstitutionofmarriage(Sultanaetal.,2021).Currentstudydelvesintohowsocietalexpectationsregardingmarriageinfluencetheperceptionsofempowermentinsinglewomen.Usingsemi-structuredinterviewswith5singlewomenrecruitedfromIslamabad,WahCantt,Hassanabdal,Haripur,MianwaliandRawalpindi.Forthepresentstudyqualitativeapproachwasused.Forthis,participants(N=5)wereselectedthroughpurposivesampling.Usingreflexivethematicanalysis(Braun&Clarke,2019),codes,subthemesandmajorthemes,wereextractedfromthetranscripts.Sixmajorsubthemeswerereportedi.e.personalempowerment,thedifficultiesingettingmarried,howfamiliesinfluencethis,psychologicalchallenges,strugglesinsociety,societalnorms,andhowwomendealwithallofthese.Theresultsreportedthattraditionalculturalnormsexertalotofpressureonwomentogetmarried,oftenthinkingthatbeingmarriedmeansbeingacceptedbyothersandbeinghappywithyourownlife(Sultanaetal.,2021).ItfurtherreportedthatempoweringsinglewomeninPakistanisamultifacetedprocessthatofteninvolvesnavigatingculturalnorms.Currentstudyhasimplicationsforpolicymakersandprovidesastrongbaseforfuturestudies.Keywords:Singlehood,relationships,empowerment,societalstruggle,traditionalbeliefs,marriage,qualitativemethod,semistructuredinterviews
Author: Ateeqa Javed,Nida Nosheen,Laraib Khalid
Language: English
Topic: Marriage and Family Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930645753
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