Capability Enhancement of Women through Information Technology to Reduce Poverty, Inequality and Radical Feminism

Vinay Sharma, Piyush Seth and Shujauddin Niyazi
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Vinay Sharma: IILM Academy for Higher Learning, Lucknow, India
Piyush Seth: Sahara Arts and Management Academy, India
Shujauddin Niyazi: Sahara Arts and Management Academy, India

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (IJABIM), 2012, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: This paper considers the development of women (especially rural and the poor) as the central aspect to the poverty alleviation and reduction of inequality. The paper proposes an extensive usage of information technology to enhance the ‘capability’ (as in the concept of ‘Capability Approach’ by Prof. Amrtya Sen) of women so as to reduce poverty and inequality. The paper is suggestive of examples of few prominent business oriented and development related efforts designed and executed for the development of women by Government and other organizations and is logically indicative of the idea that those efforts would have given wondrous results, if information technology would have played a role there. One of the examples quoted in the paper would be DWCRA (the development of women and children in rural areas) scheme. The Paper actually emphasizes on the fact and proposes that Radical Feminism may be reduced through the ‘Capability Development’ of women through Business Opportunity Development, through the usage of Information and Communication Technology. The paper further quotes few examples of ICT based efforts in other South Asian Countries also.

Date: 2012
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