1Asst. Professor, Community Health Nursing, B.V.V.Sangha's Sajjalashree Institute, of Nursing Sciences Navanagar, Bagalkot, Karnataka
2Staff Nurse, S.N. Medical College & H.S.K Hospital & Research Centre, Navanagar, Bagalkot
3Staff Nurse, Danush Hospital & Research Centre, Bagalkot
4Staff Nurse, R. T Patil Hospital & Research Centre, Bagalkot
Online published on 21 September, 2015.
A family may not be completed without a woman. She needs to take care of each one of the family member but she is unaware for taking care of herself. It is mainly due to here illiteracy and low economic status. As far as literacy is concerned women are particularly underprivileged. The working women children may try a variety of ways to meet her family responsibilities, within the framework of a democratic policy, our laws, development policies, plans and programmes that have aimed at women's advancement in different shares. The empowerment of women has been recognized as the central issue in determining the status of women. In aiming to improve women's rights and status and thereby, responding to not only their practical interests, but also strategic interest, the education, occupation, good health and self-help efforts enter the realm of the Indian women's movement. Hence the investigator felt the need to conduct “A Descriptive Study To Assess The Attitude of Women On Their Empowerment In A Selected Rural Community of Bagalkot.”
1. To assess the attitude of women towards their empowerment
2. To associate the attitude of women on their empowerment with their selected socio demographic variables.
The women who are literate and working have positive attitude towards their empowerment.
A survey approach was adopted for the present study. The research design adopted for the study was descriptive design. The study setting selected for the study was Neeralakeri Village Bagalkot The sample of the study considered 100 women. The tool used for the study was structured interview schedule with three point attitude scale. The obtained data was analyses by using descriptive and inferential statistics and interpreted in terms of objectives of the study.
Assessment of attitude of women on their empowerment reveled that majority of the women (78%) had moderately high favorable attitude. The mean percentage of attitude score was 66% with mean & SD 79-+ 8.7. The association between attitude scores and their selected socio-demographic variables was tested statistically using chi-square test. There was no significant association between attitude scores & any of socio-demographic variables.
The overall finding of the study revealed that there was no significant association between attitude scores & any of socio-demographic variables.
Women, attitude, women empowerment, rural community
