Women Empowerment And Microfinance Role Of Women Empowerment In India

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NEED ASSESMENT OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN RURAL AREAS OF LUCKNOW DISTRICT

Pooja Rani*
Dr. M.S.Khan**

* Research Scholar, Department of Rural Management, School for Management Studies, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow.
** Head/Coordinator, MBA& M.Phil Programme, School for Management Studies, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow.

ABSTRACT
Women empowerment is a process by which women challenge the existing norms & culture, to effectively promote their wellbeing. The growing social awareness across the globe has brought a number of issues to discrimination against women in the form of male-female differentiation constitutes the core of the gender biased system. The present …show more content…

This article argues that true women empowerment takes place when women challenge the existing norms and culture, to effectively improve their well being while doing so, women in India. It is argued that only a fraction of these activities are truly empowering for the participating women, however, drawing inference from the household data, preliminary results indicate that SHGs could be leading to empowerment of women. The questions surrounding women's empowerment, the condition and position of women, have now become critical to the human rights based approaches to development. Women empowerment is for advancing gender equality and empowerment of women, elimination of all kinds of violence against women, and ensuring women’s fertility as the cornerstones of population and development related programmes. Microfinance programmes like the Self-Help Bank Linkage Programme (SHG) in India have been increasingly hailed for their positive economic impact and the empowerment women. This is based on the view that women are more likely to be credit constrained, have restricted access to wage labour market and have limited decision-making and bargaining power within the …show more content…

Poor people’s empowerment, and their ability to hold others to account, is strongly influenced by their individual assets (such as land, housing, livestock, savings) and capabilities of all types: human (such as good health and education), social (such as social belonging, a sense of identity, leadership relations) and psychological (self-esteem, self-confidence, the ability to imagine and aspire to a better future). Also important are people’s collective assets and capabilities, such as voice, organization, representation and

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