A Study on the Influence of Place and Education on Muslim Women Empowerment

The main objective of the study is to determine whether there is any significant
difference in women’s empowerment based on their locality and qualification. The data collected
for this study was from 200 women at Coimbatore District. Urban and rural locality women are not
differing significantly in violence, but the rural women are facing more empowerment in the
dimensions of education, social status, finance, marriage, gender equality and overall dimensions
the empowerment than the urban women. Below graduate, graduation, above graduate qualified
women’s are not differing significantly in education, social status, finance, violence, gender equality
and over all dimensions, but the below graduate women are facing more problem in the
dimensions of ‘marriage’ in the women empowerment than the other qualified women.