Women Empowermentassessment in Terms of Income and Employment Generation

Abstract

The vocational training are designed to bridging the gap between technologies awareness and its utilization for increasing agricultural production, getting employment on allied activities and supplement the income for better socio-economic status among the society. Womenskill has been improved after getting vocational training from Krishi Vigyan Kendra Chomu, (Jaipur) Rajasthan of India. Therefore, a study was conducted to assess the level of women empowerment in terms of income/employment generated by 105beneficiary rural women who trained by the Subject Matter Specialists of KVK Chomu. Their responses on all aspects related to income and employment generated for women empowerment were recorded personally by using an interview schedule. It was concluded from the findings that the majority of respondents (60.95 per cent) had medium level of income generation whereas under employment generation most of the women had started employment herself (MPS 91.90).