changing status of women in Sri Lanka
Using the limited data available regarding the female sector in Sri Lanka, the paper seeks to spell out the impact of Western style modernization on the role of the female hitherto hedged around by heterogeneous norms and perceptions. It explores the role conflict, stresses and disabilities of the f...
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| Published in: | International journal of sociology of the family Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Prints India
01-04-1987
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| Summary: | Using the limited data available regarding the female sector in Sri Lanka, the paper seeks to spell out the impact of Western style modernization on the role of the female hitherto hedged around by heterogeneous norms and perceptions. It explores the role conflict, stresses and disabilities of the female, areas of change, in social attitude and activities as well as in the administrative and legal spheres, and, what is more important, areas which are still largely traditional. It is suggested that, as yet, the pull of tradition is stronger than the 'push' of modernization in many aspects of social organization. It makes the point that the social transformation would have to take place in the relationship between men and women rather than in a change in the status of women alone, and that this would have to evolve in a pattern of development which preserves the positive elements of tradition, while it absorbs the benefits of modernization. |
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| ISSN: | 0020-7667 0973-2039 0020-7667 |