Gender Inequality and Women's Participation in Household Decision-Making Process in Nepal(A Case Study of Jabdi VDC, Sarlahi)

Abstract

The present study Gender Inequality and women's participation in women's participation in household decision making process in Nepal'sbased on primary information collected from field survey. This studydemonstrates he role, decision-making, responsibility, constraint andopportunities of woman with comparative to their male counter-partnerwith respect to housework, economic condition, education health andpolitical sector etc. Information had it explore the perception of womenwith household decision-making process. Theout come of the study helpsin the identification of the problem in the study area. Which will help informulation and implementation of appropriate and action programs. Majority of women are deprived from the roles, decision-makingand responsibilities are economic educational activities while decision-making is very low in such sectors. But majority of women have takenrole, responsibilities and decision-making on households works andhealth sector. But in case of political women's roles, responsibilities anddecision-making are negligible which roles and responsibility of theirmale counterparts have verifying. Decision making of women is contradictorily lower than roles andresponsibility in each other, while these male counterparts havecomparatively high decision-making. Majority of woman have listenedabout gender equality. Who are in favour of parental property rights towomen as son. Majority of women have not given the parental propertyrights to them. Majority of women have focused on "will system" ofparents property rights to them. Women have the low decision-making in their personal life such aschoice of means of contraception sexual intercourse, determine to the sizeof the children. They also have the low decision making in socialparticipation/activities and credit taking and loan repayment and labourallocation functions. Women also deprived from the decision on specificeconomic issues in their male dominating of the family. Therefore, weshould extremely, emancipating the women todevelop their status as wellas the nations with proper policies and programmes.