Analysis of non-working women’s readership behaviour on women issues
Pages: 91-94
Shakshi Bisht and Vandana Verma Trar (Department Extension Education and Communication Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)
Education and empowerment has confirmatory relationship. The various issues that hinder upliftment of women are illiteracy, child marriage, female feticide and gender discrimination. To overcome these issues and situations women empowerment is necessary. The study was carried out in two localities of Hisar city of Haryana state on randomly selected seventy non-working women comprises of housewives. With the help of an interview schedule data was collected regarding newspaper readership of women issues relating to Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme. Majority of respondents were young, i.e., up to 30 years in age, educated upto primary level (30%) closely followed by graduates (29%), majority of women were married (64%) having joint family (57%) with small family size (39%). Majority of respondents had service (46%) as family occupation with monthly family income between 25,000 to 50,000 Indian rupees (32%).Significant association was found between age, education and marital status with readership behaviour of respondents.
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Pages: 91-94
Shakshi Bisht and Vandana Verma Trar (Department Extension Education and Communication Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)