• RONI GHOSH

Empowerment of women is now a major issue all over the world for the upliftment of women from their miserable, dominant and disadvantaged situation. The women empowerment issue was first introduced in India in 2001 and the year 2010 is considered as “The National Women Empowerment Day”. Although many initiatives have been taken by the Govt. of India and others organizations, but still the literacy level of women is very low. Especially in some states of India. The literacy rate of scheduled caste women is also low. As the SC population is the disadvantaged section of the society so, the researcher decided to find out the empowerment status of SC women in a selected area. This is a case study research. The objectives of the study were, to find out the empowerment status of SC women, the empowerment status of women by dimension, the difference in empowerment status in respect of educational qualifications, marital status and age of the women. Sample were collected by using judgmental sampling method. SC women were selected as the sample for the study. The sample were between the age range of 19 to 38. Survey method was used for data collection by applying questionnaire. The tool of measurement was “The Questionnaire Measuring Women Empowerment.” The reliability and validity of the questionnaire has determined by the test developer. For the analysis of data simple mathematical calculations were done like, frequency distribution, percentage calculation and calculation of average score. The result shows that the overall empowerment status of the SC women is satisfactory. According to their opinion, they enjoy most of the empowerment aspects. Only about the political issues and in some of the social empowerment aspects they have expressed negative responses. Most of the women responses were high in the educational, social and technical dimension of empowerment. It was also found by the researcher that SC women are less empowered in the economic dimension. But the most important among all is that they are not in favor of boy child. One more finding is that visible difference is found among the SC women with respect to their educational qualifications. Almost no difference is found among the women regarding their age and marital status.

Women empowerment, Empowerment status, Scheduled caste, Education.

"Empowerment Status of Schedule Caste Women- a Csae Study Research", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.426-433, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808539.pdf

"Empowerment Status of Schedule Caste Women- a Csae Study Research", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp426-433, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808539.pdf