Impediments of Women Empowerment for Participation in Democratic Process: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Women are one half of the world still they are the marginalized group in population. Despite of the critical role that women play in sustaining the family, and the contributions they make to economic and other development of Pakistani societies, they have largely been excluded from participation in the decision-making processes and mainstream activities of the most facts of life, including politics. The present study was used to find out the impediments of women empowerment for participation in democratic process. The major objective of the study was to examine the causes that hinder the participation of women in democratic process and the factors effecting decision-making of women in democratic process. The present study was a qualitative in nature and the universe of the population was all the women politicians of Local Government. The researcher conducted 05 in-depth interviews from female politicians of councilors by convenient sampling. The major finding of this study was that there are many obstacles are faced by women in their political career and those who had political background didn’t face any barriers in their political life.