Perceptions of Millennials of Twenty First Century regarding Position of Women in Pakistani Society

Javed , Hana; Zaidi , Tafazzul Hyder; Mehtab , Kiran

doi:10.5742MEWFM.2020.93858

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Perceptions of Millennials of Twenty First Century regarding Position of Women in Pakistani Society

Authors:

Javed , Hana | Zaidi , Tafazzul Hyder | Mehtab , Kiran

Publisher:

medi+WORLD International

Main Topics:

Medicine | Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

World Family Medicine Journal: Incorporating the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine 2020 Vol.18 Issue 9, pp.67-79

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

142109

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Monthly

eISSN:

18390196

pISSN:

18390188

DOI:

10.5742MEWFM.2020.93858

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Abstract:

 Introduction: Millennials is a term referring to the people born between 1981–2000. Members of this demographic cohort are known as millennials because they were born around the turn of the third millennium A.D. This generation is generally associated with heightened technical knowledge and most of their active hours are spent on social media. It is a generation which claims to break all stereotypes engrained into our minds by society in the name of “culture”.Seeing that the reason for women being discriminated within households revolves around the closed, backward concepts of dowry and patriarchy, we targeted an audience of extremely privileged, well educated, socially and culturally aware university students to determine their view point on the issue at hand.
Objective : To determine the perceptions of millennials of twenty first century regarding position of women in Pakistani society in Karachi.
Material and method: A Cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 330 participants from various universities of Karachi. The study was conducted for a period of ten months from February 2019 To November 2019 .The Data was collected from Aligarh Institute of Technology, Bahria University, DHA Suffa University and Institute of Business Administration Karachi. The sample was taken through Non-Probability Purposive Sampling. A Pilot study was conducted to assess the authenticity of the questionnaire. Data collected was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 20, with 95% confidence interval. All ethical considerations were observed.
Results: Regarding faculties of the participants, 48.2% were from Engineering, 17.6% from Commerce, 3.3% from Arts and 30% from other fields. 100% of them were single. 65.5% of our participants thought women in Pakistan are treated differently than men of the same society. 89.1% thought mothers of sons get more respect in family matters and decision making than mothers of daughters while 10.9% thought they didn’t. 85.2% of the participants believe women in Pakistan get treated differently if they become pregnant with daughters as compared to sons. When asked to specify what they meant by being treated differently, 16.97% said that society makes daughter bearing women feel bad, 34.85% thought society made them feel like they are bringing a burden into this world, 22.42% felt that the same level of health care wasn’t provided to such women whereas 25.76% felt that women carrying daughters were treated better than those carrying sons. Only 3.6% of participants said that they would have a softer spot for a woman if she were having a boy, 7.6% said they would have a softer spot if she were having a girl, 24.8% said it wouldn’t matter,61.5% would care for any expecting woman while 2.4% would not care for any. When asked which parent can naturally decide the gender of a child 58% had misconceptions. 83.33% said men should not remarry a second or third time if they were having only daughters from their first marriage, 4.24% said men should be allowed to do so without prejudice and 12.42% refrained from sharing their point of view. When asked about their ideal family, 5.5% said only 1 child (daughter), 2.1% said only 1 child (son), 87% said both sons and daughters, 2.1% said only sons and 3.3% said they would ideally want only daughters.
Conclusion: The youth of Pakistan are well aware of the social stigmas around them. Even our targeted audience that comprised people living in urbanareas have grown up seeing women mistreated for bearing daughters, but our study shows that this generation has realized the fault of their ancestors and there is hope that these young adults would bring a positive change in the future.

Article Details

Perceptions of Millennials of Twenty First Century regarding Position of Women in Pakistani Society

Authors:

Javed , Hana | Zaidi , Tafazzul Hyder | Mehtab , Kiran

Publisher:

medi+WORLD International

Main Topics:

Medicine | Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

World Family Medicine Journal: Incorporating the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine 2020 Vol.18 Issue 9, pp.67-79

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

142109

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

18390196

pISSN:

18390188

DOI:

10.5742MEWFM.2020.93858

Descriptors:

COMMUNITY MEDICINE

WOMEN

WOMEN'S STATUS

MODERN AGE

PAKISTAN

Perceptions

Millennial

Women Status

Pakistani Society

Issues

Article Details

Authors: Javed , Hana | Zaidi , Tafazzul Hyder | Mehtab , Kiran

Publisher: medi+WORLD International

Main Topics: Medicine | Sociology and anthropology

Journal: World Family Medicine Journal: Incorporating the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine 2020 Vol.18 Issue 9, pp.67-79

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2020

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 142109

Frequency: Monthly

eISSN: 18390196

pISSN: 18390188

DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2020.93858

Descriptors:

Issues

Authors:

Javed , Hana | Zaidi , Tafazzul Hyder | Mehtab , Kiran

Publisher:

medi+WORLD International

Main Topics:

Medicine | Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

World Family Medicine Journal: Incorporating the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine 2020 Vol.18 Issue 9, pp.67-79

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

142109

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

18390196

pISSN:

18390188

DOI:

10.5742MEWFM.2020.93858