Women in Agriculture

Lesson 39 : Empowerment of Women –Concept & Indicators

Quantitative Indicators of Empowerment

• Demographic Trends
  • Maternal mortality rate
  • Fertility rate
  • Sex ratio
  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Average age of marriage
• Number of women participating in different development programmers.
• Greater access and control over community resources/government schemes-creche, credit cooperative, non formal education.
• Visible change in physical health status and nutritional level.
  • Change in literacy and enrollment levels.
• Participation levels of women in political process.
  • All children in school by 2003; all children to complete five years of schooling by 2007.
  • Reduction of gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by at least 50% by 2007.
  • Reduction of IMR to 45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and 28 by 2012.
  • Reduction of maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 2 per 1000 live births by 2007 onto to by 2012.