A STUDY ON GENDER ISSUES IN RELATION TO GOOD GOVERNANCE IN MUZAFFARPUR DISTRICT OF BIHAR
| dc.contributor.advisor | KUMARI, PUNAM | |
| dc.contributor.author | Singh, Km. Priya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-21T16:17:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-21T16:17:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Gender issues have been a matter of concern since ages. There is significant role of good governance in moving towards a gender neutral society. The present study entitled with the general objectives as “A Study on Gender Issues in Relation to Good Governance in Muzaffarpur District of Bihar” conducted in Muzaffarpur District of Bihar with four major objectives viz. 1) to analyse the issues related to gender in the selected locale; 2) to measure the level of the good governance in the study area; 3) to study the relationship between gender issues and good governance level in the study area; 4) to explore the factors of Governance affecting women. Muzaffarpur District of Bihar was purposively selected as the locale of the study. This study aimed to make in-depth understanding of the gender issues in relation to good governance. Muraul block was purposively selected for the study. In Muraul block, Bishunpur Bakhri village was selected for the present study. There are five hundred sixty-three households in Bishunpur Bakhri village out of which one hundred twenty (120) female households were chosen randomly as sample for the study. Governance was independent variable and gender issues were dependent variable. To obtain pertinent data, personal interview schedule and questionnaire methods were used. Appropriate statistical tools and measurements were used for analysis of data such as Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Ranking, and Correlation. The study revealed that the existence of various issues related to gender in the study area such as: violence (56.67%), gender inequality (47.50%), gender based resource allocation (29.67%) and health and nutrition (59.79%). In the study area, the overall extents of “good governance” vis-à-vis six dimensions were found to be: public health dimension was obtained highest percentage (89.28%) and lowest percentage of economic dimension (37.04%), social dimension (62.04%), administrative dimension (52.08%), legal and judicial dimension (44.27%) and political dimension (40.93%). The result also revealed that gender issues negatively correlated with the good governance at 1% level with Pearson correlation value (r) -.498, Kendall correlation value (τ) -.626 and Spearman correlation value (ρ) -.646 respectively. Furthermore, the findings revealed on the basis of factors of governance affecting women the major factor faced by women in governance was non-implementation of women’s rights with percentage value (94%) was ranked first. Non-implementation of laws related to women (93%), corrupt politicians (81%), policy makers are mainly men folk (74%), low representation of women in legislatures (65%), public representatives are without vision (59%), justice not in vogue (56%), non imposition of law & order by the Government Functionaries including police (47%), negligence of women’s affairs in legislatures (36%), were ranked as Ist to IXth respectively. Hence, gender issues adversely affected the level of good governance in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. | |
| dc.identifier.other | M/HSECM/040/2020-21 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810199633 | |
| dc.keywords | GENDER ISSUES | |
| dc.keywords | RELATION | |
| dc.keywords | GOOD GOVERNANCE | |
| dc.keywords | MUZAFFARPUR DISTRICT | |
| dc.keywords | BIHAR | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.pages | 54 + i-iv (Bibliography) + I-XVIII (Appendices) | |
| dc.publisher | Dr.RPCAU, Pusa | |
| dc.sub | Home Science Extension Education | |
| dc.theme | A STUDY ON GENDER ISSUES IN RELATION TO GOOD GOVERNANCE IN MUZAFFARPUR DISTRICT OF BIHAR. | |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | A STUDY ON GENDER ISSUES IN RELATION TO GOOD GOVERNANCE IN MUZAFFARPUR DISTRICT OF BIHAR | |
| dc.type | Thesis |