Title:
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND EMPOWERMENT IN WEST BENGAL

Authors:
Bimal Duari

Volume - 2 Issue - 12, Pages - 5713-5725

Abstract:
Women's education and employment are indeed likely to play an important role in the empowerment of women through the collective efforts of women with favorable institutional support that can promote the empowerment process. The study points to the correlation between literacy and gender ratios in West Bengal in 2011 and finally looks into the socio-demographic co variables of women's employment and their impact on women's empowerment in the state of West Bengal, based on secondary sources of data like, Census of India and NFHS-3. The literacy rate in West Bengal has always been higher than the all-India average, and West Bengal ranks sixth among the major states in this regard. It is observed that there is a fairly low and negative level Correlation, that is, r = -0.16 between the literacy rate and sex ratio in West Bengal. The main finding is that employment has a positive impact on active participation in the decisionmaking process at home. Thus, the results show that in general 38.1 percent of women have generally participated in household decisions, in the rural area 34.26 percent, but the urban area improved a lot, such as 47, 5 percent. It is also found that Muslim women are not a good contributor to household decisions compared to Hindu women. In the case of age at marriage, among non-working women 12-17 age groups considered at an early age in marriage, but working women delayed marriage, especially those who marry later compensate for their delay in marriage. Reproductive reproduction more abundant after marriage.

Cite this Article:

[Duari, Bimal. "SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND EMPOWERMENT IN WEST BENGAL." International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 2, no. 12, 2017, pp. 5713-5725. December.]