STUDY ON EXTENT OF FARM WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN CHITRADURGA DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2009-09-24
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University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore
Abstract
Since time immemorial, women have played an important role in Indian agriculture.
Women contribute significantly to agricultural development and allied fields. In recent
years, the empowerment of women has been recognized as the central issue in
determining the status of women. The study was carried out in Chitradurga district,
totally 180 farm women were selected and data was collected by personal interview
method. The instrument relating to the measurement of extent of farm women
empowerment was not available; therefore an attempt has been made in the present
investigation to develop an instrument to measure the extent of farm women
empowerment. With a view to attaining an interval level of measurement in developing
the farm women empowerment score, normalised rank approach recommended by
Guilford (1954) was followed. The important findings of the study were; i) F-ratio
(F=15.39) for different taluks of Chitradurga district was found significant at 1 per cent
level, which indicates variation in level of empowerment in different taluks. ii)
Comparison of mean score with the computed values of critical difference revealed that,
the extent of farm women empowerment was almost similar in Challakere and Hosadurga
taluk. The extent of farm women empowerment was more in case of Chitradurga district.
iii) All the factors taken together contributed more than 71 per cent of variation in farm
women empowerment. This was indicated by a high R2 value of 0.7199, which was
significant at one per cent level (F19, 160=21.65). iv) The step number 1 with only one
variable, participation in trainings could explain more than 59 per cent of the variation in
farm women empowerment.v) The F value (F8, 171= 52.80) was found to be significant
at one per cent level which indicated the significance of the regression equation in
predicting the farm women empowerment.
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