Effect of women education and duration of marriage period on women empowerment at household level in Quetta Pakistan

House Hold decision-making and educational status are critical for economic and human development. Many decisions made at the household level influence the welfare of the individuals living in the household as well as their communities, also enables them to actively participate in financial and economic activities that is helpful to enhance their social mobility, due to which they get a chance to take part in family decision making process. In contrast to education duration of married life also significant factor that may affect the women involvement in decision making process at household level. The aim of present study to explore the factors that influence the decision-making power of married university teachers in their family matters. The study was carried out on three universities of Quetta city of Balochistan Pakistan with 120 respondents was taken as sample by simple random technique through structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed through SPSS version 20 and to study the relationship between the variables test of Chi- square and correlation is used. Results: 75.0% acceptance of women’s decisions regarding family matters is likely to be related with their duration of marriage period (r=0.095) (p=0.004), 61.7%women from BPS 21 reveals after the birth of first baby their decisions were considered (p=0.032) by their husband and his family while 84.6% response that their husband and in-laws considered their decisions regarding family matters (p=0.038) after the birth of first baby boy.