Open AccessWomen Empowerment with Special Reference to Higher Education and Employment in Khulna City
Author(s) -
Sarif Mohammad Khan,
Reaz Uddin,
Mohammad Anwar Hossain,
A S M Sayeem
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-3502
pISSN - 1811-3788
DOI - 10.35649/kubr.2015.10.12.1
Subject(s) - empowerment , likert scale , politics , value (mathematics) , data collection , descriptive statistics , scale (ratio) , population , economic freedom , sociology , economic growth , psychology , political science , social science , economics , statistics , law , demography , geography , mathematics , cartography
Purpose: This study has put a great effort to measure the empowerment status of women who are both higher educated and employed. Sampling and data collection: Data were collected form women employed in various organization like banks, educational institutions, NGOs and others for this study. Empowerment was measured based on economic freedom, household decision making, social & legal freedom and political freedom. A structured questionnaire using five-point likert scale was used to collect opinions from the respondents. A total 178 employed women were finally interviewed. Data analysis: The data were analyzed using t-test against population mean value. Descriptive statistical tools like mean value and standard deviation are also used to analyze the data. Finding: The results reveal that higher educated and employed women are empowered at some extent in dimensions like economic freedom, household decision making, social & legal freedom and political freedom.