Women empowerment: A case study on elected women of local government in Lalmonirhat District of Bangladesh

The main concern of this research was to find out the present scenario of women empowerment in local government institutions in Lalmonirhat district. For this purpose, 85 participants were selected purposively. A survey design used in this study. After analysis the collected data it was shown women members of Zila Parishad mean score is (M = 134.40) which is more than the other institutions. Mean difference of five Upazila where empowered women live Patgram (M = 132.12), Kaliganj (M = 131.08), Lamonirhat Sadar (M =129.71), Hatibandha (M = 127.00) and Aditmari (M = 124.5). The living status of empowered women is (68.235%) from single-family. Correlation between education and women empowerment is also significant (r = 0.17) at the 0.01 level.