Silenced Voices: Social, Cultural and Psychological Marginalization of Married Women Experiencing Infertility in Sri Lanka: A Qualitative Study

This study on gender marginalization of Sri Lankan married women due to infertility conducted to explore social and cultural marginalization of women's experience from their perspectives giving a platform to document their voices in this research. This study focuses on experiences encountered by the women with infertility within their family, society, circle of relatives specially drawing attention. Under psychosocial problems she encountered, this study specially attempts to draw a close attention to the above through social work discipline. It would be a novel experience to Sri Lankan society as well as the international knowledge production process and through this researcher take an attempt to study whether there are women who are being marginalized or accused by society for her status of infertility. The views of other parties in society regarding that matter and how it contributes towards developing identities of the women with infertility. As an unexplored phenomenon in social work research and practice in Sri Lanka, the researcher has employed the qualitative case study method to investigate women's infertility from their voice. This study is an in-depth exploration with using sampling. This research is able to find out how women suffer from infertility and how their rights have been deprived.