Rural Women’s Status and their Leadership Development

Abstract

Various status of 366 rural women, who were leaders and non-leaders from all parts of the country in 1988, were analyzed by the technique of Discriminant Analysis to discriminate the significant characters of the leader women from the non-leader women. It was found that the significant and positive relationship characters to the leadership status of rural women were age, self-sacrifice for the social activites, daughter of the leader, free choice to mate selection, high education, good persuasion, high decision-making in social activites, ability in home management, and spending more time in domestic, social and economic activites.