Abstract
Mainstreaming Gender Narratives: A Study on Women Empowerment of Kuki women In Assam?s Karbi Anglong District: A Case Study in Diphu Town
Highlights
Women empowerment entails wider significance in the 21st century given the growing awareness to ameliorate the socio-economic position of women and to ensure their political participation
The widely pervasive gender discrimination is a social reality in India and a strong impediment to women‟s empowerment
One way of defining it as a way to infuse people with power (World Development Report 2002).There are different parameters to measure women empowerment like autonomy (Dyson and Moore 1983, Jejeebhoy and Sathar 2001),agency and status (Gage 1995:Tazannatos1999)
Summary
Women empowerment entails wider significance in the 21st century given the growing awareness to ameliorate the socio-economic position of women and to ensure their political participation. The basic objective of the present paper is to explore the living realities of the Kuki women and the extent of their empowerment in Karbi Anglong district of Assam --- a case study of three Kuki inhabited villages in the district headquarter, Diphu—Lhanghoi, Thadou Veng and DPC. We interviewed the village headman N.Lengthang who narrated that the Kuki women enjoy a relatively better position in the society than their counterparts in the caste society.
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