Volume 06 Issue 10 October 2023
Reena Singh
Research Scholar, Division of Economics and Agricultural Economics A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i10-57Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
Women's empowerment is one of the major topics of debate today. On the one side, we pledge to reduce gender inequality, talk about their fundamental rights, and make efforts to make them empowered and on the other side, several cases of their exploitation and extortion come across in our family and society. The male dominant society and mindset are assumed to be the most notorious cause of gender inequality. In this paper, we try to analyse women's empowerment in the absence of male members. Male out migrat ion is common everywhere and largely prevailed in Indian rural society. Hence, the empowerment of staying behind women ’ whose husbands have migrated is analysed through the NFHS 5 data by using the z test of difference of proportion. The result shows that staying behind women ’ are significantly empowered in many aspects including decisions over their own health, control over using their money, visiting relatives ’ houses, household purchases, and others.
KEYWORDS:migration, economic empowerment, rural In dia, staying behind women, households
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