• PRITAM CHANDA
• Dr. Tapati Bhadra Banerjee

There is no contradicting the truth that status of women in India has made a considerable progress since independence. In spite of the several positive changes women of India still have to struggle against many social tribulations and remain to be a subject to social inequality. Nevertheless, it is a general scenario that women usually carry out the decisions made by men within the society. Empowerment is a complex concept, which varies along with cultures, persons, sexes, occupations and position in life. Women Empowerment mostly measures as how the women are enjoying their social-political-judicial rights and their economic stabilities within or outside the family. Decision making at household level may be considered as one of the possible ways towards attaining empowerment for women which has a considerable impact in shaping her own life along with life of her wards. Migration in search of better livelihood is a universal phenomenon within the human society and migrant population mainly comprises male members of the households. In the households of out-migrants, roles of women have been redefined not only within the households but at the same time they have bound to take part in the other activities which were originally attributed to men. Apart from carrying out the changing responsibilities they often have to take part in the decision-making processes to deal the situation. The decision making covers a wide range of issues right from children’s education, family health, participation in socio-economic activities and may others. Apart from mounting pressure of such responsibilities they often forced to work also. In this paper an attempt has been to analyze the involvement of women in household decision making process in Out-migrant households of two selected villages of Kultali block of West Bengal. The result clearly indicates that women are taking higher responsibilities and greater empowerment in absence of male members.

Women Empowerment, Participation, Decision-Making, Social Mapping

"Women empowerment through participation in household decision making process: A study of out migrant households in Kultali Block, South 24 Parganas", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.421-424, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903463.pdf

"Women empowerment through participation in household decision making process: A study of out migrant households in Kultali Block, South 24 Parganas", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp421-424, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903463.pdf