A Study of Empowerment of Adolescent Girls Studying at Senior Secondary Level

Abstract

This study is an attempt to find out the empowerment level of rural and urban adolescent girls studying in government and non-government senior secondary schools. The present research work is designed to study the adolescent girls empowerment regarding seven indicators that are power and entitlements, autonomy and self-reliance, decision making, participation of social activities, capacity building, social, political and legal awareness, and exposure to information. A sample of 400 girls studying at senior secondary schools aged 16 to 19 years were selected randomly from rural and urban areas of six districts of Haryana state. Adolescent girls empowerment scale developed by Dr. Devendra Singh Sisodia and Dr. Alpana Singh was used as a measuring instrument. The findings of the study were that the adolescent girls studying at senior secondary schools in rural and urban areas differ significantly on two dimensions out of the seven and on rest of the dimensions they depicted no significant differences. Also the study showed no significant differences for all the dimensions of empowerment in case of adolescent girls studying at senior secondary schools in government and non- government schools