Abstract:
The main purpose of the study was to determine and describe the extent of
activities of women leaders empowering rural women. The field work for the study
was conducted in Dumuria Upazilla under Khulna district. The entire process of
collection of data required 20 days from
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July to
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July 2009. More than one
half of the women leaders (51.7%) had very high leadership activities followed by
31.6% belonged to high leadership activities and 16.7% medium leadership
activities. It was also revealed that overwhelming majority (83.3%) of the women
leaders had leadership activities empowering rural women ranged from very high
to high. Age, leadership experience, awareness of women rights, motivation,
attitude toward women empowerment, time spent for social work, extent of contact
with rural women, cosmopoliteness and personality showed significant positive
relationship with leadership activities empowering rural women. Education showed
significant negative relationship with leadership activities empowering rural
women.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
