EMPOWERING THE RURAL WOMEN POLITICALLY THROUGH SHG APPROACH
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 54
Abstract
In the context of the gender equity issue for betterment of the society, women’s empowerment in the political aspect is crucial for ensuring equitable representation of women in decision-making and policy formulation at the grass root level. Self Help Group approach, in this regard, could be an effective mean towards empowering the rural women politically. Under such a research niche, the present study has been undertaken to assess the status of political empowerment of the women after joining Self Help Group (SHG) and thereby, exploring different factors associated with their political empowerment. The study was conducted in four villages of the Coochbehar-I block in Coochbehar district of West Bengal. Purposive as well as multistage sampling and random sampling procedures were followed to select the final respondents form the study area. The political empowerment of the women SHG members was considered as the dependent variable and the sixteen other attributes of the women respondents were considered as the independent variables for the study. The data were collected with the help of structured questionnaire schedule through personal interview method. The statistical methods used for the analysis of the data were co-efficient of correlation and multiple regressions. Results showed that the variables like education level, family education status, extension contact, mass media exposure and reasons for joining the SHG are positively and significantly correlated with the political empowerment of women. In multiple regressions, the variable extension contact was found to be positively and significantly contributing towards characterizing the political empowerment of the women but, the other variable namely age of the SHG was found to contribute negatively and significantly in case of characterizing the political empowerment of the women SHG members. The R2 value being 0.534, it is also to infer that the sixteen predictor variables put together have explained 53.40% variation embedded with the predicted variable, political empowerment of women after joining SHGs.
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AVISHEK SAHA
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