Zuraini Jamil Osman
zjo500@york.ac.uk
I am a PhD student at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia. I commenced my studies in October 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stevi Jackson. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons.) in Islamic Studies majoring in Islamic Law (Sha’riah) and MA in Civilization Studies. My master’s dissertation was entitled “The Incorporation of Islamic Values in the Family System among the Malay Community in Malaysia”. Before I came to the UK, I was a junior lecturer at the Sultan Idris University of Education in Malaysia. I joined the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities on the 18th of August 2003.
I was attached with the Department of Moral Studies under the sociology unit. Amongst the subjects I taught were “Family and Kinship” and “Malaysian Culture and Society”.
Having taught those subject matters, I am really interested to further explore issues about family and multiples roles of women in the family functioning. This will help increase my knowledge and experience and this will subsequently broaden my perspective about these issues as I mature professionally. I am really interested to build a career as an academician who is specializing in family and women. I decided to come to the University of York when I found that this centre has a programme that best matched my interests.
The topic of my study is “The Changing Family System and the Emergence of Dual-Career Family in Malay Society”. The main objective of this study is to explore the extent to which the modernization can give impact on the changing family system and the emergence of dual-career family in Malay society. This study will also examine the changing of conjugal roles and the emergence of dual career family in Malay society and how it challenges and affects the Malay family system. I hope this study will expand and enhance the existing literature framework in matters regarding dual-career family. The results will hopefully be able to contribute to the understanding of the Malay dual career family phenomena in Malaysia so that these families can identify the needs for them to deal with certain challenges in order to succeed in their career while at the same time able to retain healthy family functioning.