OPINION OF WOMEN LEADERS ON WOMEN LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES TOWARD RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

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.