International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies June 2019, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 46-52 ISSN: 2333-6021 (Print), 2333-603X (Online) Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI: 10.15640/ijgws. v7n1p6 URL: https://doi.org/10.15640/ijgws.v7n1p6 Women in the Male Chauvinistic Society: A Sociological Study of District Faisalabad, Punjab (Pakistan) * Shabbir Ahmad 1 , Wu Huifang 1 , Saira Akhtar 2 , Shakeel Imran 3 , Haroon Yousaf 2 Abstract There is a great hue and cry about the status of women in the male chauvinistic societies particularly in the Muslim societies around the globe. In most of the cases, the literature history presented women as the victim of social injustice, imprisoned in the chains of culture and religion, experiencing political transgression, and social deprivation. The present study investigated the position of women in the male chauvinistic society of district Faisalabad. The investigation was executed in the most vulnerable tehsil (Samundri) of the mentioned district. Furthermore, four union councils were selected in the said tehsil, and fifty respondents were picked up and thoroughly interviewed from each gender group that summed up into two hundred respondents in total. The findings of this research study indicated that 62.0% females and 55.0 % males were agreed that the condition of women was good in the society. Moreover, 61.0% females and 53.0% males were of the view that women should participate in the economic spheres of the household activities. It was revealed by 48.0% females and 44.0 % males that women could play their role in the development of the country. Lastly, 46.0% female and 54.0% male respondents interpreted that male chauvinism has decreased in the society that is permitting ladies to enjoy considerably equal rights in comparison to men. This study concluded that male chauvinism is decreasing very rapidly and would become a past story soon. Keywords: male chauvinism, society, gender, discrimination and social injustice, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan 1. Introduction: Patriarchy is a system in which men command on a significant position in important spheres of life as compared to women. It is not only practiced in the Islamic countries but also in all other important religions and cultures of the world (Carol & Christ, 2013). Due to the propaganda of mass media and feminist movements, it has been assumed that males are responsible for all the social injustices that women are experiencing in many parts of the world. Where, the undue domination of males over the female folk in the social, educational, political and religious spheres is characterized as male chauvinism and the societies which practice this trend are regarded as male chauvinistic societies (Peter, 2006). The condition of women is getting better as awareness is increasing through the all-pervasive channels of mass media particularly in the developed as well as in the developing and under-developed countries around the globe. At the global level, if we discuss the condition of women, particularly, in the United States of America, it is improving with the rise of science and technology. In the US, women have made dramatic economic progress, especially since the 1960s. Because of several indicators, women have experienced important gains in nearly two decades that the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) has reported. For example, women are more likely than men to be employed in managerial or professional jobs and to have health insurance coverage (Heidiet. al, 2006). In the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, considerable progress was made by women in the economically progressive areas dominated by Western culture including North America, Europe, and Australia due to the rise of science and technology. Women, who are living in the developed parts of the world are enjoying equal rights as compared to their male counterparts (Rajan, 2015). 1 College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University,Haidian District, Beijing, China 2 Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan 3 University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Sub Campus Burewala, Punjab, Pakistan *shabbir.ahmad@uaf.edu.pk