Feminist Consciousness and Changing the Status of Women

Abstract

The research was conducted on Feminist Consciousness and changing the status of women of Non Governmental Organizations of Agra City, Uttar Pradesh. In this research, Feminist consciousness has been considered as a movement or ideology towards the changes in the social, economic and political status of women where women are subordinated in the patriarchal society and the word Feminism provided positivistic and holistic approach which goal is to understand the social and cultural transformation of men and women and changes in the human relationship in terms of their identity, family life and in public and private sphere. The objectives of the present study were to acquaint the impact of feminist consciousness on social, economic and political status of women and to see the relationship between challenges faced by women to uplift their status. Therefore, the population embodied with beneficiary women trained by Non Governmental Organizations and Non beneficiary women were not benefited through selected NGOs from Agra city, Uttar Pradesh. These organizations were selected from simple random sampling by using lottery method named Aastha Welfare Society, EkPehal (B.R Memorial Welfare Society),Indian Dreams Foundation and Tapan foundation Non Governmental organizations. The sample size was selected from four Non Government organizations constituted of a group of Beneficiary and Non Beneficiary women. Hence, Researcher followed the stratified random sampling method to select the 320 sample units. The findings revealed that there have been found significant impact of feminist consciousness on the status of women and positive relation between the challenges faced by women to uplift their status. newline