Socioeconomic Conditions of Women in Sindh with Special Reference to Kamber-Shahdadkot District

Abstract: Present research has been carried out on 120 randomly selected households from three Talukas (sub-districts) of the District Kamber-Shahdadkot (Sindh), with aims to investigate the socioeconomic conditions as well as the insecurity among rural women in the District. Results revealed that the majority of the respondents lived in rural areas with small and simple houses, because of their limited resources. It was also recognized that the majority of the respondents' source of income was agriculture followed by government jobs and daily wage labor, where the income from a government job was higher from the income earned from cultivating lands, may be because of less technological advancement in the region. Particularly, the female literary rate was only 39 percent in the study area, where women's participation in the decision making seemed also low. The results also revealed that women were feeling insecurity in the society, for example, domestic violence, bullying, harassment, and honor killing. The respondents in the study area were worried about the availability of basic amenities, where poor infrastructure and draining systems were severely damaged as well as were of poor quality. Based on the findings, it is recommended that besides infrastructure development, the health facilities and agricultural extension services may be executed on immediate bases in the region.