EMPOWERING RURAL WOMEN: POSITION AND QUALITY LIFE IN KABBENUR VILLAGE OF KARNATAKA

The Kabbenur village is located in Dharwad district of Karnataka with 22 kms distance from Dharwad city. Kabbenur village has its own rural infrastructure with socio-economic environment, education, transport, religion, politics, health scenario etc. On the other side there is rule of dominant caste system which makes people of lower castes and village women undergo discrimination especially in occupation, income, education, politics etc. The village is known for its cattle farming being dairy farming as popular one, Location of Temples and conduct of jatras is found to be most important one. Religion determines the behavior of people where traditionalism ought to be signicant aspect. Women being the population with secondary status of different castes and age groups have come out with socio-economic, education and health problems which need to be solved and appropriate measures should be initiated by the government to solve the problems of people in general and women in particular. Researcher has collected information through primary and secondary data. The basic materials for this paper come from the primary data collection method, through the participant observation and interview schedules. The sample has been chosen from the village; by using simple random sampling method 120 respondents were chosen for the present study.