Relation between Caste and Household Level Decision of Gender

Abstract

Caste and gender both are the socially constructed terminology used by generation to generation as the cultural of social stratification. The study has focused to identify the relation between caste of respondents and household level decision of gender. The study was based on the cross-sectional descriptive design. Study was conducted in Ilam district of Nepal. Simple random sampling was used to select the household who were involved in Small Farmer Cooperative Ltd. (SFCL). Women were the primary respondents of this study. Result shows that among the 6 variables (household expenditure, selling of domestic animals, finalizing the business plan, marriage of family members, participation in social activities and saving money in bank), except saving of money in bank, more than 50% respondents said that they mutually decided on rest five household level activities. Regarding the saving of money in bank, around 80% said that wife has authority to decide about the saving of money. In conclusion, it is found that both male and female has equal rights to decide in majority issues of household level decision also.