Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the determinants of the role and importance of housewives share in family’s overall income in improving their family living standards. In this connection Peshawar district was selected as research area. The reason for selection of this area is to make better comparison of the role of housewives as most of the studies are carried out to highlight the role of working women. Very little quantitative work has been carried in this regard. The area of research is further categorized into three urban areas that are Gulbahar, University Town and Hayatabad while three rural areas that is Kacha Garahi, Palosai and Achinie. The sample size (age between 20-60 years) was 450 households, which was comprised of 300 urban and 150 rural households. Based on the findings of research it is deducted that results showed positive and significant effect on the housewives share in family’s overall income and the respondent’s education, number of family members, number of hours of work in almost all the regions except family organization (in Hayatabad, Gulbahar, Kacha Garahie and Palosai) and number of family members (in Achinie) which showed negative relation. It is suggested that the rate of economic participation of these women can be substantially raised through the introduction of the appropriate measures if these steps are carried out with true letter and spirit.
Keyword(s)
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: pub_keywords
Filename: front/publication.php
Line Number: 77
Backtrace:
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/application/views/front/publication.php
Line: 77
Function: _error_handler
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/application/controllers/Front.php
Line: 221
Function: view
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
Filename: front/publication.php
Line Number: 77
Backtrace:
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/application/views/front/publication.php
Line: 77
Function: _error_handler
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/application/controllers/Front.php
Line: 221
Function: view
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: pub_info
Filename: front/publication.php
Line Number: 84
Backtrace:
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/application/views/front/publication.php
Line: 84
Function: _error_handler
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/application/controllers/Front.php
Line: 221
Function: view
File: /home/prdbpk/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once