ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT

Abstract

The study was conducted in four villages namely East Mahmudpur, Hobipur, Kodomtola and Khapara under Shariatpur sadar upazila at Mahmudpur Union to determine the attitude of farmers towards women's empowerment. Ten characteristics of the couples namely, age gap, political awareness gap, educational gap, dowry, religious belief, male vanity, income gap, knowledge gap, social status gap and cosmopoliteness gap were selected as dependent variable. A well-suctured interview schedule was developed based on the objectives of the study for collecting information. Among the farmers; the highest 44 percent belongs to the low level attitude group followed by 31 percent in medium level and 25 percent in high level attitude group. Among the farmers total 75 percent felt in low to medium level of attitude group. Age gap, political awareness gap, dowry, religious belief, male vanity, income gap, knowledge gap, social status gap and cosmopoliteness gap showed significant negative relationship with attitude of farmers towards women's empowerment. Only educational gap showed non-siificant positive relationship with attitude of farmers towards women's empowerment.