Empowering citizens: does gender difference prevails in the exercise of civic responsibility

Empowering civic responsible citizens ensure a better nation. The present study aims at investigating how far the history students are responsible as future citizens and whether there exist any gender difference exist among them. The sample consists of 1611 students of B.A (history) studying at various colleges of arts and science in TamilNadu. Descriptive method using survey as technique was used to solve the present problem. Exercise of Civic Responsibility Scale (ECRS) developed and validated by V. Sasikala and S. Francisca (2016) had been used for collecting the data. The data was analyzed using mean, S.D and ‘t’ test. The result showed that majority of the college students exercise their civic responsibility moderately and gender difference prevails in the exercise of civic responsibility.