A STUDY OF THE AWARENESS LEVEL OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS AT SENIOR SECONDARY LEVEL WITH REFERENCE TO DECISION MAKING & PARTICIPATION CAPABILITY

Empowerment literally means providing skills, resources, authority, opportunity and motivation. It involves a giving responsibility & accountability for outcomes of the actions that contribute to ones competence and satisfaction. Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing individual to think, take action and control work in an autonomous manner. It is the process by which one can gain control over one’s own destiny and the circumstances that influences one’s lives. Females in India have long been suppressed in the male dominated society. Though the government has been taking initiatives in this regard from time to time yet a lot still needs to be done. In light of the above, the study attempted to measure the empowerment of the adolescent girls from a comparative perspective among the private and the government schools in Delhi