ARTICLE

WOMENS EMANCIPATION DURING MUSHARRAF ERA 19992008

15 Pages : 165-172

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-I).15      10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-I).15      Published : Mar 2021

Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008)

    Women liberation and efforts to achieve equal domestic and social rights struggle hard in a patriarchal society. Feminism is strongly inculcating the idea of gender equality to avoid discriminatory behaviors. The present research aims to study the phenomenon of women emancipation during the Musharraf era. Pakistan is a patriarchal society where men exercise their power over powerless female members of the family. The current study aims to highlight women emancipation and its dire need to maintain to give importance to women. The study is qualitative in nature, focuses on the need for women emancipation. The findings reveal that 21st-century Pakistani society is still facing patriarchal pressures where women emancipation is prohibited by powerful agencies, so there must be strong efforts to be done to work for equality of rights of women. The study enriches knowledge on the phenomenon of women liberation and provides insight for future researchers to carry out significant research in this regard.

    Women Emancipation, Patriarchy, Feminism
    (1) Shazia Noareen
    PhD Scholar, Department of History & Pakistan Studies, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Asmat Naz
    Professor, Department of History & Pakistan Studies, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Noareen, Shazia, and Asmat Naz. 2021. "Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008)." Global Political Review, VI (I): 165-172 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-I).15
    HARVARD : NOAREEN, S. & NAZ, A. 2021. Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008). Global Political Review, VI, 165-172.
    MHRA : Noareen, Shazia, and Asmat Naz. 2021. "Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008)." Global Political Review, VI: 165-172
    MLA : Noareen, Shazia, and Asmat Naz. "Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008)." Global Political Review, VI.I (2021): 165-172 Print.
    OXFORD : Noareen, Shazia and Naz, Asmat (2021), "Women's Emancipation during Musharraf Era (1999-2008)", Global Political Review, VI (I), 165-172