Empowerment of Women in Nepal: From The Ca Members'perspective

Abstract

This study entitled "Empowerment of Women in Nepal: From the CA Members'Perspective". Women's empowerment is that combination of words which carries the meaning of strangepower in every sector of women. However, Nepal is male dominating society where femalesare always marginalized; it is processing to be empowered. All the political parties talk aboutgender rights, equality, non-discrimination etc which are limited in speech rather than inpractical. Are the female leaders who talk about rights, equality and nondiscrimination freefrom socio-cultural and economic discriminations in the family and society? Which is thesubject matter of the study. The specific objectives of the study are: a. to examine the empowerment of women bydemographic, socio-economic and political variables in the study of population; b. toevaluate the empowerment of womenby their participation and access in political, socio-economic sector and their decision making process; and c. to compare the empowerment ofwomen among the different political parties in Constitution Assembly. Based on primary source of data using by questionnaires 74 sample sizes are taken from thepurposive sampling method. The respondents are taken from different demographic, socio-economic and political characteristics. In the study of respondent population, women's participation is not as equal asmen in the topposition of party. More than half respondents have not completed the higher education. Mostof the respondents are not access to economic ownership, and they have not strong decisionmaking power in every sector like the slogan or speech of political parties. All therespondents are not empowered in the studied populations. However, they are moreempowered than as whole Nepalese women. How many they are and what they have, this isthe good starting, but they are not so perfect or well empowered what they had to be as aleader of political party or the leader of whole Nepalese women.