Abstract
Women’s empowerment is influenced by individual, familial, and socio-cultural factors. This paper is an attempt to investigate the
personal and familial determinants of women’s familial empowerment at domestic level in four cities of Pakistan (Rawalpindi,
Lahore, Sahiwal, and Multan), using the sample of 350 ever married women of reproductive age (15-49 years). Women’s Familial
Empowerment Index (WFEI: Batool & Batool, 2018) was used to measure familial empowerment variable. Women’s own age, own
education, family system, family-head, conjugal term, number of children, number of male children, number of brothers, age
difference from husband, husband’s education, husband’s support and husband’s income were used as independent variables. The
results of the study indicate that women’s own education, family head, number of children, husband’s education, husband’s income,
and husbands support positively predict women’s familial empowerment. Suggestion of the study are also discussed.
Syeda Azra Batool, Syeda Shahida Batool, Shazia Kauser. (2019) Do Personal and Familial Factors Matter in Women’s Familial Empowerment? A logistic model, Paradigms , Vol 13, Issue 2.
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