The Role of Gender in the Measurement of Political Awareness in Pakhtun Society
Abstract
The Pakhtun Society is a patriarchal society. Men have socio-politically and economically dominant status. Therefore, a man is always head of the family. He runs the affairs of the whole family. Likewise, socio-economic fields a man has dominant role in the political affairs of the family. It is observed that men always try to influence the political decision inside and outside the family. As a result of the strong position of a man the female family members accept their dominant role in politics. The men always try to suppress the political voice of female family members. Therefore women are politically not empowered in our society. On the other hand female have very little understanding of the political affairs. To measure the political awareness of the respondents’ five questions were asked from the respondents. These questions included importance of vote, eligibility criteria of vote, manifesto of political party, democracy and voter list. This study is primarily based on quantitative data. Data is randomly collected from twenty union councils of District Charsadda. Chi-square test is used for data analysis.
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