Gender Empowerment in Barnoti and Kathua Blocks in Kathua District
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 9
Abstract
This paper attempted to study gender empowerment in Barnoti and Kathua blocks in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. It dealt with different factors influencing gender empowerment in rural areas. Aspects like number of the sampled households that supported gender equality, reasons cited by the sampled households for not supporting gender equality, number of the sampled households as per working members (gender-wise), number of the sampled households whose members had received/were receiving vocational and skill development training (gender-wise), number of the sampled households in which female and male members were receiving same wages for same work, number of the sampled households that included female members in decision-making regarding their education, employment, marriage, apparels, and visits to relatives and friends were studied.
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Jasbir Singh, Rahul Kundal
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