Participation of Rural Women in Decision Making Activities and Its relation to their caste and religion

Abstract

An Idea which is gaining momentum these days is that Increased participation of women in decision making at all levels will help to adjust the goals pursued through the development of country Keeping the above views, an attempt has been made by the investigator to know the actual position of women in decision making in rural areas and relation to their cast and religion  of decision making. For this purposes Faizabad district Millipore block was selected randomly in the second stage. Out of 35 villages 25% women (50 women) of the village namely Amaniganj was selected randomly for present study. It was found that the mostly women were taking decision in the area of clothing, food and religious activities and least were in the area of communication. Women belongs to the Hindu families, upper cast, were actively engaged in decision making in comparison of Muslim families, lower cast, Significant differences between two groups were observed regarding religion (t=2.063p<0.05), cast (t=2.145p<0.05). Effect of caste on decision making power of women was more in comparison to religion.