Obstacles and Challenges for Women Education and Outside Working: Gender Inequality and Hegemonic Masculinity Social Law

Abstract

The study explored gender inequity due to traditional rigid family systems and how gender roles are different in getting education and working outside of the home. The problem of gender inequality still exists due to the traditional culture and mechanical solidarity of Pashtun society.  Pathetic and inhumane traditional values and inadequate access to education and technology in remote areas of rural Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, still chock gender transformation. The study used a qualitative lens to collect data through an interview guide and analyzed through a thematic data analysis technique. A purposive sampling and theoretical sampling technique were used, and a sample of 29 participants (female) who belonged to rural backgrounds and ages were 22 to 50. The findings portrayed that Pashtun society is composed of traditional cultural values and a mechanical solidarity social structure. In conclusion, political and social-cultural structures should transform motivate women to get job in other cities factories to polish their skills. Gender inequality has existed at the root of political, social and cultural structure in these rural areas of Pushtun, where it is unconventional for females or women to stop them from their hidden potential. Social policymakers should work on family leadership and state to perform their role in the transformational factors of females and to use energy resources to eliminate rigidity in the workplace.