Perceived social attitude towards role of women in rural dairy enterprise

Present study was conducted to elucidate structure of social attitude towards perceived role of women in rural dairy enterprise agreed upon by society. Total of 160 respondents from 8 villages belonging to 4 talukas of Dahod district (Gujarat) were selected using stratified random sampling. Role of women in rural dairy enterprise was hypothesized to have 5 major roles viz. Nutrition, Management, Breeding, Healthcare and Finance. There were 10, 8, 4, 7 and 5 sub roles (Likert variables) allotted to each major role. Responses on these 34 five points Likert type variables measuring social attitude towards different aspects of role of women in rural dairy enterprise were collected using pre-structured questionnaire. Analysis using Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test revealed an arrangement of major roles as 'Management[arrow right]Nutriti on[arrow right]Healthcare[arrow right]Breeding[arrow right]Finance' ordered in decreasing trend of women role in these major activities. Role of women if depicted as five stratum pyramid, management and finance had occupied highest and lowest positions respectively. Further data mining using Mann-Whitney (M-W) test brought healthcare and breeding under common stratum with no significant differences (p