A STUDY OF WOMEN ATTITUDES TOWARDS THEIR SOCIOECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Abstract

Women's empowerment enables them to be valued and recognized for who they are and what they do. Women are empowered by their abilities to fearlessly confront the personal and social realities of their current situations, not so much by the feminism philosophy. The goal of current study is to find out the level of women participation in socioeconomic activities and see the attitude of women towards empowerment. This study was done in the district Gilgit Pakistan with the objective, to find out the level of women participation in socioeconomic activities and see the attitude of women towards empowerment. Quantitative research methodology was used for Knowledge, attitude and practice analysis of women empowerment in different areas of district Gilgit. In the present study researcher used simple random sampling technique to select the target population because the list of the population is available and equal chance will be provided to participate in research through simple random sampling. The designed study was implemented only to those women’s who are registered. There are 388 registered women in agriculture and livestock management in district Gilgit. According to Rao soft sample size calculator, the estimated sample size is 194.  The presents research results concluded that in District Gilgit most of the females are actively participated in social activities that makes women enable to take decisions about their household activities and also the result shows that women education is a main factor to cause positive impact on women's attitudes towards their socioeconomic empowerment.