Sex preference of offspring is very strong in Bangladesh associated with socioeconomic and cultural reasons and as a result, parents desperately want to get firstborn boy. Many couples are distressed, ... Read More
A women’s career till middle of the 20th century was not more than a school teacher, a librarian, a social worker or a nurse. A woman really had to work hard to earn less pay for the same job where me ... Read More
The character of Bertha Mason has been stereotyped as a “madwoman in the attic” in Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre (1847).” Jean Rhys in her novel “Wide Sargasso Sea (1966),” has tried to re-inscr ... Read More
Respect for the elderly has always been a prevalent social norm in Pakistani society. Retired People in Pakistan have recently become visible due to changing social values. Karachi is the mega city of ... Read More
This article deals with the traditional and changing gender roles and relationships in the exchange-marriage system that exists in south Punjab, Pakistan. It examines the structural roles and an indiv ... Read More
From the late nineteenth century onwards, women in both industrial and nonindustrial countries have entered the most skilled and up to date branches of professions. The number has increased but in som ... Read More
This study was conducted from the period of October to December 2013 with a selected population of elderly women who belongs to urban and rural areas of Karachi. The aim of the study was to investigat ... Read More
The history of sports is generally one of the masculine domination. That’s why women in sports have been a topic completely ignored by most scholars in Pakistan. The paramount purpose of this study wa ... Read More
May 9, 2014, Daily Dawn Pregnancy is not a disease, yet a large number of women use their life while giving birth because of multiple factors, all of which are preventable, said health experts. In Pa ... Read More
Qualitative Research in Multidisciplinary Perspective is published by the Center for Research, HRD and Publications, Prime University in June, 2014. Professor Dr. Profulla C. Sarker, distinguished Vic ... Read More
Pakistan is a third world country, with more than 60% rural population, confronted with a lot of social problems including poor health of the masses particularly women, illiteracy and low quality educ ... Read More
This study tries to explore the psychological, social and emotional experiences of the women who have gone through the recurrent miscarriages. Although miscarriage is seen as common and occurs frequen ... Read More
The objective of this project paper is to gauge various factors underlying the internal and transnational trafficking of girls, women and children in Pakistan and to review the gravity and blueprint o ... Read More
The present study “Promotion of Primary Health Care in Pakistan: A Case Study of the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Promoting Primary Health Care in Karachi” is aimed at determining ... Read More
The current study, “Effects of Socio-cultural Exclusion and Community Level factors on Reproductive Health Behavior of Pakistani women” was predicated on the household survey. By using probability sam ... Read More
We examined determinants of ever use of contraceptives among women living in urban slums of Pakistan. Data were drawn from a nationwide study, “Living Conditions in Urban Slums of Selected Cities of P ... Read More
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of first menstrual onset on females with reference to Pakistani culture. Two hundred and thirty five female students from Karachi Univers ... Read More
The women are affected by many forms of violence; most often inside the most secure environments i.e. of their own homes. Women are suffering in our societies due to socio-cultural values, misinterpre ... Read More
Dower is a gift presented to the bride from bridegroom at the time of marriage. This is a token from a husband to his wife which shows that he will continue his services and gifts to his wife in futur ... Read More
This paper intends to review and analyze varying level of women’s participation in politics at different periods of time in political history of Pakistan and its impact on the status of women in the c ... Read More
This study highlights foundation that women encompass – inside their houses as unpaid family work, as wage-earners to be found at the lowest position of income generating work and as care-givers. Here ... Read More
The present study is “A study of Causes of Anxiety Disorder (SAD) among youth of Karachi University; deals with behavior patterns and expected to reflect on the type of society and its attitude toward ... Read More
An endeavor has been made in this paper to ascertain the reasons behind the bleak performance of the economy of Pakistan in spite of the fact that the country possesses cheaper labor as compared to ma ... Read More
Considerable researcher has been carried out for the identification of the barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in Pakistan and how these barriers can be removed. Moreover, the research has also atte ... Read More
Traditionally Pakistani society exhibits stereotypical patriarchal gender ideologies in all spheres of life. Pakistani media also operates under the same patriarchal framework of received definitions ... Read More
The present research work was carried out to study the attitudes and problems experienced by mothers of children with cerebral palsy. To achieve this broad objective, scales for the attitudes of mothe ... Read More
This article has two parts, first part of the article deals with the importance of marriage in Islam in the light of Quran and Hadith. This part of article also elaborates the social importance of mar ... Read More
Allah bestowed knowledge to human beings and made them superior among all His creation. The Holy Prophet said that every man and woman must acquire knowledge to play his/her role in developing a healt ... Read More
ISSN
