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Women's Perception in Development Activities in a Selected Area of BAUec

A .R. Choudhury
Editor, Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

M. N. Islam
Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

A.S.M.Z. Karirrr
Dept. of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

S. Alamin
Technical Officer, CARE, Mymensingh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Data were collected from 97 women who are the beneficiaries of BAUEC in order to determine their participation in various development activities, to determine and describe their selected characteristics and to explore relationship between their selected characteristics and their participation in various development activities. Data were collected by means of using a questionnaire through face to face interview. The respondents' opinion for participation in various development activities was the dependent variable whereas the personal characteristics e.g. age, education, family size, homestead size, organizational participation, husband's cooperation, training received, communication exposure, daily time use and fatalism were the independent variables of the study. Cooking, vegetable cultivation, poultry rearing, sewing, tree plantation and child care were the top six development activities in rank order. Correlation coefficient regarding the relationship between dependent and independent variables indicates that education, organizational participation, training received and daily time use was positively significantly correlated. The remaining variables did not show any significant relationship.

Keywords: Participation, development activities, BAUEC

Location: Sutiakhali, Mymensingh district

Start Date: 12-10-2000

End Date: 15-10-2000

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Non-commodity: Database Management

Objectives:

1.To determine and describe the extent of opinion for participation of rural women in rural development activities, an 2. To explore the relationships between the extent of opinion for participation in development activities as perceived by the participating rural women and their selected characteristics.

Methodology:

BAUEC has been working with rural women for various development activities. There were altogether 970 farm families in the village Sutiakhali, who are the BAUEC beneficiaries and were considered as population for this study. Ten percent of the population were randomly selected following the simple random sapling method. Thus 97 rural women constituted the sample for this study during 12 to 15 October, 2000. Variables of the study - Women's opinion for participation in development activities was the dependent variable of the study. It was measured by asking their opinion on 25 items related to development activities. A 5 point Likert-type scale such as strongly agree, agree, no opinion, disagree and strongly disagree were used to measure the levels of agreement of the women towards the development activities. The score was assigned to each of the responses as 4, 3, 2, 1 and o respectively. By adding the assigned scores of25 items of a respondent together, the opinion of a woman on development activities was obtained. Thus the opinion for development activities score of a respondent could range from 0 to 100, where o indicating most unfavourable opinion, while 100 indicating most favourable opinion for development activities.

Source of Information: Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education, Vol. 13 No. 1&2,2001: 57-62; ISSN 1011-3916

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Achievement/Findings:

Women being half of the population remain unacknowledged for their development activities in our social system. They could be a development partner for economic emancipation of the country and various nation building activities. There are significant proportion of women in the society who are progressive, educated and have strong motivation for development activities and can be utilized by GO and NGOs in order to motivate other women who are shy and reluctant to do so. Education is a key concern for millions of illiterate women. So, the above progressive women may also be engaged in mass literacy program launched by GO and NGOs.

Knowledge Management: Journal