The objectives of the study were: (1) To determine the influence of socio-economic status of women in relation to their attitudes towards social change. (2) Comparative study of socio- economic status of educated and uneducated women in relation to their attitudes towards social change. (3) Comparative study of socio economic status of rural and urban women in relation to their attitudes towards social change. (4) To determine the contribution of values of women in relation to their attitudes towards social change. (5) Comparative study of values of educated and uneducated women in relation to their attitudes towards social change. (6) Comparative study of values of rural and urban women in relation to their attitudes towards social change.

The sample comprised of 500 women of rural and urban areas and it included educated and non-educated women. Sample was selected from four japadas of Citrakoot Mandal Dham, namely, Banda, Chitrakoot, Mahoba and Hamidpur. The Stratified Random Sampling Method was used to select the sample. 

Tools used were: (1) socio – economic scale developed by S.P.Kulshreshtha, (2) personal value scale by  Shanta kumari Agrawal and.P.Singh and (3) Social change Attitude scale by P.Singh. 

The present study was survey type. 

Obtained data were analyzed with the help of Mean, kurtosis, skewness, standard error and correlation coefficient.

The findings of the study were as follows: (1) The background of women, urban or rural and their education is related to their attitudes towards social change. The correlation of socio – economic status of educated women and attitude towards social change is 0.34 which is highly positive. The correlation of uneducated class and urban background in relation to their attitudes towards social change is 0.06 and 0.15 respectively while it is 0.01 only among rural class. (2) Social values of women of educated class are highly positive and effective. Educational values of women of uneducated class are highly negative and effective which is 0.13.No value is positively effective among urban women, only the effect of human values is highly negative and effective which is -0.16, while religious values are negatively effective among the women of rural background and it is –0.15. (3) There is significant low correlation of socio – economic status of women of each class and their values in relation to their attitudes towards social change. (4) In present days television, other means and media and government and non-government organizations and institutes play an important role in developing positive attitudes towards social change. Attitudes towards social change among the women of each class, namely, rural, urban, educated and uneducated are more or less same.