A Study on Importance of ICT in Women Ewmpowerment

The development of the nation depends upon the development of the human resources and the ICT playing very crucial role for the development of human resource. Human resources mean not only man but women also. As we know that India is still man dominated country and woman have less resource as compare to man but ICT destroying the all the gaps and providing the great opportunity for the development of women.Empowering women through ICT means to provide economic power to reduce poverty, to develop new opportunity of distance learning and education, bring improvement in health of women, and finally to increase literacy rate among women. The study presented the how information, communication and technology (ICT) accelerated women empowerment and basic objectives behind to doing this study are; to study need of the ICT for empowerment of women, to analysis the role of ICT in woman empowerment, to study the impact of different age groups and education on the need of ICT for women empowerment. The study is empirical in nature and based on the primary as well as secondary data. The primary data collected by means of structured questionnaire and targeted to the 100 woman from Delhi on the basis of judgmental sampling and collected the responses from 90 women. The secondary data collected through the various sources like government and non-government website, journal, books etc. The data analysis based on the descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics. The various tools of descriptive statistics used to analysis the data and for in inferential statistics chi-square test for independence used. The study pre-assumed that the education, skill development and training, decisions making and employment etc. are the main pillar for the development of women. The study concluded that the DAG’s (different age groups) do not impact on the need of ICT for women empowerment and education also has not impacted the need of the ICT for women empowerment. Although in some areas women have no access of internet, mobile and any tools of ICT. So unavailability of infra and resources are making the ICT baseless for the women empowerment. The government of India should make the eco-system with collaboration of private sector to provide the entire necessary source and infra to create the enthusiasm among women to adopt the ICT.