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Mothers Role and Perception in Developing Gender Discrimination

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  • Anjum Bano Kazimi

    (Professor, Department of Education, IQRA University, Karachi, Pakistan.)

  • Muhammad Ali Shaikh

    (Vice Chancellor/Meritorious Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, SMI University, Karachi, Pakistan.)

  • Stephen John

    (Director ORIC, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Pakistan.)

Abstract

This study of the role and perception of mothers in developing gender discrimination is focused on analyzing mother's role, as their role in developing child personality and social behavior is proved by the researches. Present research is a mixed method research, mothers were the population , a total 183 mothers were selected, data was collected through questionnaire and 16 mothers were selected for personal interview through purposive and random sampling .Validity was ascertained through expert opinion and reliability through Cronbach alpha .Results indicated that mothers from rural and urban areas of Sindh Pakistan have almost similar and very obvious discriminative behavior for daughters and sons mother do not realized implications of their behavior and they presents many arguments to justify their gender discriminative behavior. We concluded that awareness of the consequences of their behavior and education should be emphasized to change discriminative behavior for minimizing gender gap.

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  • Anjum Bano Kazimi & Muhammad Ali Shaikh & Stephen John, 2019. "Mothers Role and Perception in Developing Gender Discrimination," Global Political Review, Humanity Only, vol. 4(2), pages 20-28, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:aaw:gprjrn:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:20-28
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    Keywords

    Gender Equality. Gender Discrimination; Perception; Consequences;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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