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SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS IN ERODE DISTRICT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Sai Om Journal of Commerce & Management - National

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Title SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS IN ERODE DISTRICT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
 
Creator M., Dr. Kavitha
 
Subject Self-Help Groups; Women Empowerment; Social Empowerment of Women; Rural Development
 
Description It has been realized that development programs have bypassed women who constitute about half of the population of the country. Over the years, the concept of empowerment has broadened to include the growing concern of the women’s movement for gender equality and social justice.  Rightly women’s empowering has been receiving due attention in recent years. Rural women enjoy a low status. They are not in a position to take advantage of the opportunities available. The solution lies in their empowerment which implies, in the Indian context, redistribution of power that challenges the male domination.  Their status must be improved economically, socially, politically, and culturally. Several programmes and schemes have brought economic and social reforms, but not in a significant manner. The concept of SHGs is a new window for the development of the rural mass. Therefore, the effective management and development of women’s resources is of paramount importance for rural development. The spirit for social and economic upliftment of members is the significant contribution of every SHG. Hence, the researchers think that it is worth to study the role of Self-Help Groups in social empowerment of women in Erode district.  The present study is empirical in character based on survey method. The researchers have adopted multi-stage sampling. As an essential part of the study, the primary data are collected from 610 members of the Self-Help Groups. In order to study the attitude of the members towards the role of Self-Help Groups in women empowerment, chi square test, analysis of one-way variance, student t-test, analysis of co-efficient of variation, multiple regression analysis, inter-correlation analysis and percentage analysis have been employed. Lack of avenues to discuss problems, family constraints, political problems, lack of capacity building exercises, lack of access to information, problems in marketing, competition with large scale organizations, absence of groups to downtrodden community, poor network with various agencies, lack of encouragement, and inadequate education and training are the constraints of the members of Self-Help Groups. The study suggests suitable measures for the social empowerment of women through the Self-Help Groups.
 
Publisher Sai Om Publications
 
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Date 2015-05-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://abhinavjournal.com/journal/index.php/ISSN-2347-7563/article/view/659
 
Source Sai Om Journal of Commerce & Management: A Peer Reviewed National Journal (Online ISSN 2347-7563); Vol 2, No 5 (2015): Sai Om Journal of Commerce & Management: A Peer Reviewed National Journal (Online ISSN 2347-7563); 6-11
2347- 7563
 
Language eng
 
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