Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determine and describe the extent of acti vities of women leaders for
empowering rural women. The study was conducted in Dumuria Upazila under Khulna district. Data were
collected from 60 rural women leaders through personal interview using an interview schedule during 827
July, 2009. Women leadership activities for empowering rural women was the dependent variable of
the study where as leadership experience, awareness of women right. motivation, time spent for social
work, extent of contact with rural women, and personality were independent variables. Twenty five
leadership activities were identified and from the analysis all were found to be effective for empowering
rural women. From the leadership activities score it was found that extent of women leadership for
empowering rural women ranged from medium (16.7%) to very high (51.7%). However. an overwhelming
majority (83.3%) of the women leaders had empowering capacity ranged from high (3\.6%) to very high.
Relationship between dependent and independent variables were were explored. All the independent
variables had significant relationships ranged from high to very high with dependent variable at 0.0 I
levels.
