Abstract: Present investigation was intended to study the empowerment of adolescent girls studying in higher secondary schools of government and private schools of urban and rural areas of Durg district of Chhattisgarh. By adopting descriptive survey method study was conducted on two hundred higher secondary school adolescent girls. Data was collected by adopting adolescent girls empowerment scale constructed and standardized by Sisodia and Singh (2009). Data was analyzed by t-test. It is evident from the analysis that rural adolescent girls are less empowered than urban adolescent girls. Further adolescent girls studying in rural government schools are less empowered than their counter parts in urban schools.
Keywords: Adolescent girls, Empowerment, higher secondary schools, Urban and Rural Area.
Title: STUDY OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS EMPOWERMENT
Author: Dr. Shabana, Dr.Manimekhala shukla, Mrs. Pritika Tamrakar, Ms. Meena
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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