Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan
Women poll workers play a vital role in conducting free and fair elections in Pakistan. The present study explored the social, cultural, and economic challenges women poll workers faced during the general elections of 2024 in Pakistan. Qualitative research with in-depth interviews of seven women poll workers was conducted in Malakand, Pakistan. The study explored that the mobility of women poll workers to polling stations was socially restricted, family elders restrict women's polling duties, and gender roles in the domestic sphere also constrain women poll workers from election duties. And family elders, including in-laws, discouraged women from performing election duties. Women poll workers staying tell evening in polling stations is also considered unethical it is required to compile election results. The study concluded that prior consent should be taken from women government employees, and logistic support should be provided to enhance the women poll workers' efficiency during their election duty.
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Women, Poll Workers, Social, Challenges, Elections, Malakand, Pakistan
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(1) Adeeba
MPhil Scholar, Political Science Department, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Manzoor Hussain
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Hussain Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
Cite this article
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APA : Adeeba., Hussain, M., & Ali, H. (2025). Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan. Global Political Review, X(II), 164-174. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2025(X-II).15
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CHICAGO : Adeeba, , Manzoor Hussain, and Hussain Ali. 2025. "Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan." Global Political Review, X (II): 164-174 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2025(X-II).15
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HARVARD : ADEEBA., HUSSAIN, M. & ALI, H. 2025. Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan. Global Political Review, X, 164-174.
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MHRA : Adeeba, , Manzoor Hussain, and Hussain Ali. 2025. "Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan." Global Political Review, X: 164-174
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MLA : Adeeba, , Manzoor Hussain, and Hussain Ali. "Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan." Global Political Review, X.II (2025): 164-174 Print.
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OXFORD : Adeeba, , Hussain, Manzoor, and Ali, Hussain (2025), "Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan", Global Political Review, X (II), 164-174
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TURABIAN : Adeeba, , Manzoor Hussain, and Hussain Ali. "Exploring the Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women Poll Workers in General Elections-2024 in Pakistan." Global Political Review X, no. II (2025): 164-174. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2025(X-II).15
