Study Women Empowerment Through Self Help Groups

SELF-HELP GROUP OF RURAL ASSAM AND ITS ROLE IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Dr. Polee Saikia1 1 Associate Professor, Department of Education, Gauhati University, Assam, India. ABSTRACT: Women empowerment is a universal issue. Women empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. It refers to increasing and improving the social, economic, political and legal strength of the women, to ensure equal

local level for women. Reports indicate that self-help programmes, often in the form of savings and credit or micro credit schemes, have succeeded in changing the lives of poor women, enhancing incomes and generating positive externalities such as increased self-esteem. This paper addresses the challenging issue of whether self-help micro credit programmes are tools for empowering poor women. 'Micro credit is about much more than access to money. It is about women gaining control

development goals indicators provide a considerable stress on improvement within the condition of the women and children as the result of the history says that they are the foremost suffers of the financial condition. The eight goals of the Millennium development goals are Goal 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2 - win universal primary education Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women Goal 4 - reduce child mortality Goal 5 - Improve maternal health Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria

EMPOWER WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD: PLANNING FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE In recent decades, the process of development in the Third World has largely deprived women and marginalized them of their control of resources and authority. However, the burdens of their traditional duties are still heavy. Women not only take care of the whole family within households, but also play an essential role in community management and security. While the important role is widely recognized by worldwide, that is not necessary

Roll’s article: Women, Poverty, and Trauma: An Empowerment Practice Approach illustrates the benefits of applying empowerment theory in Social Work practice when working with women who’ve experienced poverty and trauma. Through their 20 years of experience in utilizing this approach, they learn that its effects have been rewarding and successful. The following paper is an analysis and critique of this intervention. The article focuses on the “feminization of poverty”, in which women are disproportionally

The status of women in a society is a significant reflection of the level of social justice in that society. In the literature, women’s status is commonly described in terms of their education, income, employment, health, fertility, etc. somewhere it has shown thattheir roles within family, community and society also. But if we are talking about tribal communities, the role playing by women is crucial and substantial. According to the Oxford dictionary “a tribe is a group of people in a primitive

Table 3 shows that women respondents who have joined SHGs get encouragement to participate actively in Gram Sabha and elections. Clear difference can be seen as 36% of SHG women’s and 10% of Non SHG women’s have attended Gram Sabha. Whereas participation in discussions the response is very low, 15% and 5% of SHG and Non SHG women’s respectively. On the other hand, participation in social development program is 36% of SHG and 4% of Non SHG women’s respondents. II- FINANCIAL ASSETS Table 4- Purpose

Introduction The topic of this article will focus on psychological aspects of sexually abused women and the trauma recovery and empowerment. Sexual abuse can be well defined as sexual assaults and sexual exploitation of the individual, which include the following: Rape, Incest, Molestation and Voyeurism. An assortment of 15 empirical studies will compare and contrast their findings of psychological sexual abuse and trauma recovery. Individuals that are victims of sexual abuse can undergo many issues

NEED OF THE STUDY Women-owned enterprises contribute 3.09 percent of industrial output and employ over 8 million people. Approximately, 78 percent of women enterprises belong to the services sector. Women entrepreneurship is largely skewed towards smaller sized firms, as almost 98 percent of women-owned businesses are micro-enterprises. As with the broader MSME sector, access to formal finance is a key barrier to the growth of women-owned businesses, leading to over 90 percent of finance requirements

In every society, especially in Africa, women are the most affected by poverty. To this effect, it is important that certain measures have to be taken to ameliorate the scourge of poverty. One of these