SJIF Impact Factor (2023): 8.574| ISI I.F. Value: 1.241| Journal DOI: 10.36713/epra2016 ISSN: 2455-7838(Online) EPRA International Journal of Research and Development (IJRD) Volume: 8 | Issue: 3 | March 2023 - Peer Reviewed Journal 2023 EPRA IJRD | Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.36713/epra2016 | https://eprajournals.com/ |97 | PARTICIPATORY GENDER ANALYSIS: A STUDY ON WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETAL DOMAINS Ramkrishna Mohanta Research Scholar, Department of Education, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India ABSTRACT Scholars of women’s studies investigate the status, roles and treatment of women, as well as the historical and regional variation in meanings of womanhood and how ‘woman’ relates to other identity categories. When it was first established, the goal of women’s studies was to have women not only as objects of analysis, but also as subjects producing new types of knowledge. Since then, the field’s scope has expanded to include research into the full range of gender formations. This paper will look at specific areas where women are contributing towards a better society. KEYWORDS: Women, Education, Literature, Politics, Election INTRODUCTION In light of the past two crucial decades, feminism researchers have engraved essential protest to the way social science has outlined men, women, and society. Since the beginning, debates over epistemology, technique, and methodology have been intertwined with discussions on the best ways to correct inaccurate and incomplete accounts in the context of traditional analyses (Adhikari & Saha, 2021b). One needed to observe the implications of the most obvious methods one may aim to modify the androcentrism of the features of traditional in order to grasp the depth and breadth of the metamorphosis of social sciences required to identify women and gender activities. In an effort to ‘add women‟ to these analyses, feminists (Beauvoir, 1949). We discover three different types of women who emerged as unquestionable candidates for this mechanism: women who contributed to public life and were already the subjects of social science studies; women who are social scientists; and lastly, women who had fallen victim to the most egregious and flagrant manifestations of male preeminence. GENDER ANALYSIS According to historians, men’s attitudes and ideals are inextricably linked to both their reasoning and their behaviour. His standard for judging them rests on the evidence of their behaviour, not some mental construct of his own. It is up to him to detach it and rebuild it using the guidelines of an academic debate or the expansion of Methodism. Any field of knowledge can only be understood by some selection principle and its methodical application. Finding meaning in a situation does not mean imposing it from without; rather, it means giving coherence to what men have deemed significant. Critical theorists have worked to identify the causes and audience of such decisive praxis throughout the 20 th century and the present. The ability to recognise the pervasive connection between action and cognition has remained critical theory's most important intellectual strength. Marx asserts that theory cannot be resolved through practical endeavours and that practise always triumphs over theory in this instance. Any kind of social life is just pragmatic. The entire enigma that motivates theory is mysticism that has been rationally and objectively explained in human practise and in the understanding of this practise. Social theory as a whole is in trouble. The new theories advanced by phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, feminism, and others sought to be more adept at defining a contemporary society and providing direction and inspiration for its redesign (Brace, 2000). These theories have stirred up a lot of controversy in the field of social theory and sparked a fiery debate regarding the processes, character, and objectives of critical theory. Hence, critical theory is remarkably self-critical and self-reflexive, compelling theorists to continuously think about the nature, approach, and outcomes of a critical theory. The promise of modernity, which itself was predicated on the assumption that the development of science and technology would enhance human control and dominance over nature and yield greater individuality, freedom, and happiness, was abandoned here, in their opinion, by the disintegration of subjectivity. EDUCATION AS A MAJOR DOMAIN Education paves the way for women to assert their power, claim their rights, and achieve liberation. It empowers women to think independently. Education is therefore a means for releasing women from their routine enslavement and desire to follow and be instructed by men. It is true to say that education has a significant role in determining the presence of the second gender in politics. Women with higher levels of education are more inclined than those with lower or no educational backgrounds to engage