Analysis of Rural Women's Participation in Income Generating Activities in District Mardan
Abstract
Purpose: The contemporary research was intended to survey the countryside women's participation in monetary creating activities and had explored socio-economic obstacles faced by them while carrying out their home activities.
Methodology: Survey was carried out in two purposively selected villages in the Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. by Usage of a simple random technique, targeting a total of 112 women respondents’ primary data were collected with the help of a semi-structured interview schedule and analyzed with the help of descriptive statistics techniques.
Findings: The study found that the literacy rate was low among the sampled respondents therefore livestock rearing and embroidery work was the most common income-generating activities among the respondents. There were no formal and recognized training centers or any other guidance providers for the women in the study area. Moreover, the lack of marketing facilities had restrained the respondents to sell out their products at cheaper prices, therefore, sampled respondents faced problem/s in performing income-generating activities in the study area.
Implications: credit and marketing facilities can also be promoted for the sustainable business advancement of the rural women so they can sell their products at reasonable prices to improve their socio-economic conditions.
Downloads
Article Analytics Summary
References
Albert, C., & Escardíbul, J. O. (2016). Education and the empowerment of women in household decision‐making in S pain. International Journal of consumer studies, 41(2), 158-166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12326
Ahmmed, M. M., & Chakraborty, N. (2012). Women’s status and early childhood mortality in Bangladesh. Retrieved on August, 4.
Bagheri, M., Moltafet, H., & Sharifian, H. (2008). Evaluating the effects of women's employment on the pyramid of power in the family. Journal of Family Research, 5(18), 247-252.
Kavithaa, N. V., & Rajkumar, N. V. (2016). Dicision-making behaviour of farm women in dairy farming activities in erode district of tamilnadu. Management, 22(36.66), 38.
Rao, V. P., & Rao, V. N. (1982). Marriage, the family, and women in India. New Delhi: Heritage..
Zafar, S., Batool, Z., & Bano, S. (2005). Female participation in decision-making process in family matters in district Faisalabad, Pakistan. Journal of Agriculture and Social Sciences (Pakistan).
Copyright (c) 2022 Naila awan, Shahrukh Inam, Afeera Saeed
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
CSRC Publishing and JAFEE adhere to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors, submitting and publishing in the Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies published by CSRC Publishing, retain the copyright of their work and give the journal right to publish their work agreeing to the licensing policy under Creative Common Attribution-Non Commercial (NC-BY-NC 4.0) International. Under this license, the published authors let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. Yet all the other authors using the content of CSRC Publishing are required to cite author(s), journal name and publisher in their work. CSRC Publishing and JAFEE follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.
