Role of Working Women in Decision Making about Family Matters in District Poonch Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Abstract

The present study aims at understanding the Role of working Women in Decision Making about Family Matters. Furthermore, to explore women's autonomy in decision-making among working women under a different family system such as nuclear and joint family in Poonch district AJK. It is generally assumed in Pakistani society that women’s status is not equal to men and that men have the privilege of controlling and managing the women’s lives. Women of study area, however, present a different picture.  Although this study area was a male dominated, but the employed women, as the findings of the study revealed are more empowered and independent they makes their own as well as their family’s decisions. They also make decisions regarding children’s education. The present study also revealed that majority of the respondents perceived that their position in family is so sound because of their employment. In addition to, the participation of working women in each issue was a self as well as the joint with their husbands and other family members. This study concludes that the status of women enhances their involvement in the decision-making on the basis of their working conditions because through their employment they contribute for family income.