Women of the relatively well-to-do and also of middle income families attend only to household work. Their participation in farm activities is not reported. Those belonging to low income households are heavily engaged in domestic work and also assist their men in several farming activities, especially livestock care. In the daily matters of life, women have little or no decision making role. They are restricted to the household and they can go out side only under strict guard of men. They are not given a share in inheritance nor do they claim any although the Islamic law of inheritance allows women a share in property. Even in such a vital matter as marriage, their consent is not taken.

The women have a subordinate position mainly because in Pashtoon society women are considered as a code of honour of men. Hence one way of protecting their honour is to confine them to the homes, keep them uneducated so they do not stand up against men, ignore their consent in all matters so they do not disgrace them by choosing against their will.

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