This dissertation focuses on post divorce experience of highly educated and professional
women; it examines post divorce experience of these women in a broader perspective
and looks into areas where women face with difficulties and challenges as well as areas
where women gain relief and independence in the wake of divorce. The study also
searches for answers to the question whether act of divorce has an inhibitory effect
on women‘s empowerment at large. The main argument of this dissertation is that
while in some areas women experience relief and independence, due to the cultural
context they live in some other areas women go through difficulties and challenges
which may put them in a vulnerable position. However this study shows that women
devise survival strategies through which they find ways to mitigate restrictions and
challenges which attest to their agency in the aftermath of divorce.