Perceived empowerment of tribal women through livestock enterprises in Tripura

Abstract

A study was conducted on Jamatia and Debbarma tribal women of Tripura predominantly inhabiting Sepahijala and Gomati district to assess their empowerment level through livestock enterprises by selecting four villages from each district and 25 respondents from each village making the sample size 200. In pooled sample 80.00%, 12.00% and 7.50% of the respondents had medium, low and high level of economic empowerment. The corresponding figures in socio-cultural empowerment were 74.00%, 20.50% and 5.50%. In politico-legal empowerment 70.50% fell in medium category followed by 18.00% high and 11.50 % low. In decision making empowerment 82.00%, 10.50% and 7.50% had medium, high and low empowerment level. Psychological empowerment witnessed 76.50%, 14.00% and 9.50% respondents with medium, low and high level of empowerment. Large number of Jamatia tribal women perceived medium level of empowerment in all the dimensions in comparison to their Debbarma counterpart, there was no statistically significant difference between the two.