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Empowerment Appraisal of Rural Women in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra State

Vidya V. Tayde and R.R. Chole

Abstract

Women empowerment is a process of awareness and capacity building leading to greater participation, to greater decision-making power and control and to transformative action. A study was undertaken on different aspects of women empowerment i.e. psychological, cultural, social, economical and political empowerment. The results of this study highlights that psychological empowerment are majority of women have self confidence but minimum in career ambition. In cultural empowerment, highest beneficiary women had freedom for deciding (food) menu and very less women had freedom wearing a kind of dress. In social empowerment, majority women had freedom to mix in women friends and minimum in to visit the hospitals. In economic empowerment, majority of women were empowered on all the items of economic empowerment except employing labourers, decision about marketing of produce and savings in fixed deposits. The political empowerment in different point was very low because they are not aware about their rights

Keyword: Women empowerment; Politi

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