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dc.contributor.advisorHa-Brookshire, Jungeng
dc.contributor.authorDas, Debanjan (Merchandising professor)eng
dc.date.issued2016eng
dc.date.submitted2016 Summereng
dc.description.abstractThe significant role that women empowerment plays in economic and social development has led practitioners and researchers to search for the indicators that affect women empowerment. Women empowerment scales, such as Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index, have been developed in the agricultural sector, which is the largest provider of female employment in the world. However, scales to measure the women empowerment for the second largest provider of female employment in the world, textile and apparel manufacturing, is non-existent. Therefore, the study developed Women Empowerment Index for Apparel Industry (WEIAI), the index measures the degree of women empowerment within the apparel manufacturing households. The study employed Alkire Foster Methodology to measure Women Empowerment. A face to face survey was conducted. Results indicated that the study participants were disempowered. The lack of leadership in the community and the lack of control over the use of income were found to be greatest contributor to Indian women's disempowerment working in the apparel industry. The study confirmed the five domains of empowerment sub-index model via confirmatory factory analysis. Implications, contributions, limitations and future research opportunities are also discussed.eng
dc.description.bibrefIncludes bibliographical references (96-108 pages).eng
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityDr. Jung Ha-Brookshire, Dissertation Supervisor.eng
dc.format.extent1 online resource (v, 136 pages) : illustrationseng
dc.identifier.merlinb121169959eng
dc.identifier.oclc1020073193eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/57139
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.32469/10355/57139eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertationseng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.eng
dc.titleDevelopment of women empowerment index for the Indian apparel industry /eng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplineTextile and apparel management (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelDoctoraleng
thesis.degree.namePh. D.eng


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