Socio Economic Empowerment of women and Gender Participation in Governance

Rationale: To address gender inequalities there is now a greater realization around the world on gender-sensitive governance, aims to focus on women rights at the hearts, goals and practices of governance institutions. A clear cut understanding of gender policies associated with governance in terms of unequal economic and social powers, interests, priorities, responsibilities and Rationale: different needs of women is required. The political participation of women in the mainstream politics and their number in national parliaments would help to initiate gender-sensitive governance and implement gender-sensitive reforms. objectives:To determine factors effecting socio economic empowerment of women To determine correlation between socio economic empowerment of women and Gender Participation in Governancesecondary data will mainly be used In the context of Pakistan the subject and related gender theories evolved in Europe are generally being understood from those perspectives. The subject is being taught in Pakistani universities on the same pattern and contents as in the West. While knowing various perspectives is important, absence of content in indigenous context and by indigenous writers makes the whole exercise less relevant to the society. Pakistani society has its own peculiarities and there is a need to develop indigenous material on the subject in local socio-cultural context keeping in view the requirements, aspirations, nature and behaviors of people of Pakistan as well as the belief and value system of the society.hence this research will add to the exiting literature on women empowerment in right direction.