Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume 63 | Issue 2
Male Out-Migration and its Impact on Women Empowerment in West Bengal
DOI:10.30954/0424-2513.2.2018.23
Abstract:
In this paper, an attempt has been made to measure the empowerment of women in terms of sustained increase in income earning capacity accompanied by a freedom of choice in families which have come across out-migration of male members. This measure of empowerment of women is mainly based on three indicators, viz. restrictions placed on them, their decision-making powers and their mobility. This study shows that out-migration of male members has not generated any significant impact on the empowerment of women members of those families. The most general factors which increase mobility of women, the decision-making power and relatively less social restrictions placed on them are age, their education, marital duration, residential status and occupation.
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