 Self Help Groups: A Tool to Boost up Woman EmpowermentJ. Venkatesh and K. Kala Management and Labour Studies, 2010, vol. 35, issue 1, 75-83 Abstract: Rural women are one of the most marginalized groups in India. Women-led self-help groups (SHGs) can improve the plight of rural women by providing them access to credit. SHGs are made up of 15-20 members. Each member contributes money ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 100, which is then deposited in the bank. The group can then obtain loans from the bank of from their own funds. Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered concept. WomenÃs empowerment is a process in which women gain greater share of control over resources - material, human and intellectual like knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money - and access to money and control over decision-making in the home, community, society and nation, and to gain ëpowerÃ. According to the Country Report of Government of India, “Empowerment means moving from a position of enforced powerlessness to one of power†. Poverty and unemployment are the major problems of any under developed countries, to which India is no exception.†In India, at the end of ninth five year plan 26.1% of the population was living below poverty line.†In the rural area 27.1% of the population was living under poverty.†The overall unemployment rate is estimated to 7.32%.†The female unemployment rate is 8.5%. Date: 2010 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:manlab:v:35:y:2010:i:1:p:75-83 DOI: 10.1177/0258042X1003500105 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Management and Labour Studies from XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources |
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