SOCIO–ECONOMIC IMPACTS OFWOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN

This paper examines the impact of urban women’s empowerment on the socio-economic conditions on family level. Two residential phases of Hayatabad in Peshawar city such as Phase-I and Phase-V were selected as universe of the study. First, the empowered women were identified in the sample areas and then from amongst them 80 were interviewed under purposive sampling technique through questionnaire. The research study found that empowered women played an important role in supplementing their family budget; they shared in all kinds of decision-making related to family affairs; they observed no gender discrimination in health and education of their children; their children got better education and developed better personality traits such as self confidence, manners and permissiveness. The study recommends for the educated status of the rural community to extend the practice of empowering women for the sake of their improved standard of living.