Status of Women in Punjabi Proverbs (A Case study of Islamabad)

Abstract

The main focus of the study was to explore those proverbs that have been transmitted from older to the younger generation and they are still consider popular and they carry wisdom the present research was carried out with the major objective. To analyse the use of proverbs in day-to-day life. To find out social perception and status of women revealing through proverbs. To investigate how proverbs are originated and what function do they perform? To collect Punjabi proverbs in Khanna area those have the reflection of status of women in society. The research was conducted in the district Khanna as known as Khanna Dak mainly by using anthropological and qualitative methods that mainly included participant observation, focused group discussion, purposive sampling, semi structured interviews the information was collected from 30 respondents using purposive sampling to made the above mention objectives. Women were treated negatively in the past. However, times have changed, and women are no longer treated in the same way as they were in the past. However, the proverbs remain the same. Still, these proverbs exist and are transmitted from generation to generations. The data I collected, there a very few proverbs in which women are depicted positively; instead, women are primarily depicted negatively in proverbs. Key Words: Punjabi proverbs, Images and status of women, Collected, Transmission and reflection of status of women.