Abstract:
- Within the causes of family relationships both males
and females maintain specific tasks and positions based on the
gender perspectives since the historic epoch in Sri Lanka.
According to sociologists, the tasks are merely divided on gender
based decisions. Child births, socialization, fulfill husbands’’
needs, and manage the economy with series of other vigorous
activities of the family unit to be fulfilled by the married woman.
In this context family disputes were unavoidable when challenges
occurred due to ineffective control of family matters. Owing to
changes occurred in the society transformation of the role and
tasks of women too, were happened resulting that women
represent comparatively to the men in the current labour
market. The continuation of uninterrupted family system within
the said composition is still a task coming under the purview of
women. Married women are accustomed to perform the tasks
within the family units while accomplishing the status of malefemale gender aspirations.
Women who are enduring penalties being imprisoners in
contradictory to their bestowed tasks and status based on the
gender related matters at domestic level, this study attempts to
emphasize the causes affected them to be guilty on some offenses
and also to analyze whether influences were there or not from
their husbands, if so, in what nature and which form of
influences was the problem to be determined through this
research. Accordingly, 63 married women prisoners were
selected from different age categories and from mixed religious
backgrounds. The research was launched through discussions,
using questionnaire, observations, and case studies and via
focused group discussions, too. The investigations revealed that
79.66% of informants were in the opinion that main cause
behind their offensiveness was the muddles involved by their
husbands. It was also disclosed that husbands’ direct
involvement on drug related actions, abusing women, murder,
theft and burglary were candidly affected them to face the
current situation. The research findings endorsed the need of
mandatory as well as socially adapted amendments targeted on
the family system which could endorse an intelligible
community that ensures healthy relationship between husband
and wife and within the family units.
