Unmarried women and socio-cultural implications: students’ attitudes towards spinsterhood, fldm, fez, Morocco

Author: 
Sofian Herouach

The present study is an attempt to investigate the factors behind spinsterhood, the sort of perception popular mindset hold on spinsters and the consequences of being a spinster. It starts with a theoretical part as a background to the topic. Then, it moves to the practical part where the study depends a field work for testing the constructed hypothesis. The field work is conducted through questionnaires. Briefly, the findings proved that the majority of respondents, 51% believes that the society considers spinsters as those who had never been proposed to. Moreover, 52% of respondents believes that spinsters are old women who had never been married. As to the factors behind spinsterhood, the findings proved that the majority of the respondents, 75% refer spinsterhood to the fact that women prioritize their education and careers on marriage. For the consequences of spinsterhood, 53% of respondents demonstrate that spinsters’ isolation and embarrassment is one major impact of spinsterhood.

Paper No: 
2771