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Educational Empowerment of Women in Theni District of Tamilnadu - A View


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Education is the prime avenue for empowering women. This process of empowering entails much more than awareness of alternatives, women’s rights and the nature of the requirements. To analyse the association between the profile of the respondents and dimension of empowerment. The research design in the present study is descriptive in nature since it describes the phenomena of eradication of poverty through empowerment. Higher education motivated women to balance between domestic work and career work is the top ranked educational empowerment, reduction in infant mortality rate largely depends on higher education is the second top ranked educational empowerment. A need to establish separate educational, institutional and provision of self-employment shall be highly initiative for enhancement of women’s educational output.

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Age, Educational Qualifications, Caste, Religion, Employment, Status.
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N. Selvaraj
Department of Commerce, Saraswathi Narayanan College, India

Abstract


Education is the prime avenue for empowering women. This process of empowering entails much more than awareness of alternatives, women’s rights and the nature of the requirements. To analyse the association between the profile of the respondents and dimension of empowerment. The research design in the present study is descriptive in nature since it describes the phenomena of eradication of poverty through empowerment. Higher education motivated women to balance between domestic work and career work is the top ranked educational empowerment, reduction in infant mortality rate largely depends on higher education is the second top ranked educational empowerment. A need to establish separate educational, institutional and provision of self-employment shall be highly initiative for enhancement of women’s educational output.

Keywords


Age, Educational Qualifications, Caste, Religion, Employment, Status.

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