Personal Correlations of Empowerment of Women

The present study was conducted in twelve villages of six development blocks of three districts of Marathwada region of Maharashtra state on 120 women respondents with an object to study the personal, socioeconomic and psychological characteristics and the level of empowerment of rural women. The result of the study depicted that majority of the respondents were found in the category of middle age group, middle school level of education, belonging to schedule caste, nuclear family, small farmer’s families and married. The maximum percentage of respondents were possessing agriculture+labour who were earning annual income between Rs. 20,001/- to 40,000/-. The social participation, cosmopoliteness and use of information sources were observed to be of medium level. Majority of respondents belonged to medium level of women empowerment followed by low and high empowerment. It was observed that age, education, marital status, land holding, annual income, social participation, cosmopolitans and use of sources of information were positively and significantly related with empowerment.