Feminist Methodologies

Feminism is a point of view, not a research method. In other words, there are several ways to study women (Reinharz, 1992). But the central goal of feminist empiricism, position recognition theory, post-modernism methodology is that women's living is important and women have to be understood from their perspectives and context (O'Donnell , 1985, Reinharz, 1992). All feminist methodologies focus on combining men and women from a male perspective to focus on improving knowledge (DeVault, 1996).

Multiple versions of feminism contribute to various fields of feminist methodology. In general, the focus of the feminist methodology is to positively question and change the position of power imbalance in the investigation process. As a researcher, we draft questions and establish rules for research encounter; we make quite a few remarks in discussion, thinking, thinking, memory, and understanding of research participants. The feminist methodologist continues to focus attention on the power problem and seeks to share decisions in the research process and interpretation of the data. An example involves collaborating with participants to create research protocols and questions and asking for their opinion on the interpretation of conclusions.

Female scientists have made many unique contributions to the feminist methodology in social science research. However, there is still doubt as to whether there are unique feminist methodologies, and female researchers are challenging traditional methods by bringing new perspectives and valuable new insights in some way. To name a few, major female researchers have made some excellent contributions to social science research - "Goelting and Fernstermaker, 1995; Orlans and Wallace, 1994 and Thorpe and Laslett, 1997" . (DeVault 1999)

This paper examines the original contribution of feminist methodology in social science research. Introduction outlines historical and future prospects. This paper is then divided into two different parts. (1) Feminist study - In social science research, these methods mean that they are used in conjunction with related tasks and selections. Combining epistemological issues raised by feminist studies (2) takes into account different perspectives and criticisms of traditional research. An example of a suitable case study will explain this. Most researchers in sociology tend to think that there is no unique feminist methodology. In the 1960s and 1970s, the feminist movement created more collective consciousness. Among them, a group of women developed a mode of exploration that publicly debates and challenges traditional normative research. (Devault 1996)