Online ISSN: 2515-8260

ASSESSING HEALTHY LIVING AND MEASURING EMPOWERMENT LEVEL OF WOMEN USING INDEX

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A.Nasima*&Dr. P.Shalini**

Abstract

Background of the study: The termWomen empowerment is a method of increasing women’s right to manage over tactical life spans, which influence them to access chances that make them understand their abilities. Empowering Women is essential for the economic development of a nation as per the year 2020 world records, female pilots are more in India compared to other nationals. We are somewhere high at a similar phase still our nation women are struggling to attain Gender Equality. This is because of our patriarchal society. Objective: The key objective of this study is to determine the level of women empowerment in domain base, individual, and overall. Methodology: This study focuses on women empowerment using an index with five domains to find the level of Individual, overall, and domain wise. The Questionnaire was distributed to 300 rural women in Chengalpattu district, the data collection was done by using a close-ended questionnaire with a structured interview method using purposive sampling the result was further derived using an index method. Findings: The study found using the index indicates that rural women in Chengalpattu district are overall empowered; they have reached > .8 adequate levels, by domain wise empowerment levels first, came the knowledge second, the domestic Third, the health fourth, the Activity and finally Fifth, the social interaction. Activity domain and social interaction have a very low level of empowerment special care should be taken to overcome this issue.

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