摘要：Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behave, take action and work in an autonomous way. It is the process by which one can gain control over one's destiny and the circumstances of their lives. The present research work is designed to study the adolescent girls empowerment regarding seven indicators that are power and entitlements, autonomy and self-reliance, decision making, participation of social activities, capacity building, social, political and legal awareness, and exposure to information. This study is an attempt to find out the relationship of socio- economic status with different indicators of empowerment of adolescent girls studying in government and non-government senior secondary schools.A sample of 150 girls studying at senior secondary schools aged 16 to 18 years were selected randomly from rural and urban areas of Sonipat dist., Haryana state. 'Adolescent girls empowerment scale' developed by Dr. Devendra Singh Sisodia and Dr. AlpanaSingh and Socio- Economic Status Scale developed by Dr.Ashok K. Kalia and Dr. SudhirSahuwere used as measuring instruments. The findings of the study were that the empowerment of adolescent girls studying in government and non-government schools in rural and urban areas positively correlated with socio-economic status on four dimensions out of the seven and on rest of the dimensions they depicted negative correlation.
