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Micro Enterprise and Women Empowerment through Self Help Groups:A Study of Allahabad District in Uttar Pradesh


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1 Dept. of Commerce, University of Lucknow, India
2 Dept. of Commerce, NKMV, Lucknow, India
 

Women comprise fifty percent of the world population and receive only just ten percent of the world income and possessor of even less than one percent of world's property. Women suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in terms of literacy, labor participation and earnings. The major strategies for women empowerment include social empowerment, political empowerment and gender equality along with demo- graphical justice (rural and urban). For the rural women, economic empowerment can be achieved through the concept of Self-Help Groups based on group approach to rural development. SHGs are definitely a boon to the rural poor women who undertake workable economic activities on their own. SHGs are voluntary association of people formed to accomplish some common goals. In this paper, an attempt has been made to evaluate the type of business and its performance carried out by women SHGs members and its impact on economic empowerment in rural areas.

Keywords

Empowerment, Development, Self-Help Groups.
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Pratibha
Dept. of Commerce, University of Lucknow, India
Sadhna Singh
Dept. of Commerce, NKMV, Lucknow, India

Abstract


Women comprise fifty percent of the world population and receive only just ten percent of the world income and possessor of even less than one percent of world's property. Women suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in terms of literacy, labor participation and earnings. The major strategies for women empowerment include social empowerment, political empowerment and gender equality along with demo- graphical justice (rural and urban). For the rural women, economic empowerment can be achieved through the concept of Self-Help Groups based on group approach to rural development. SHGs are definitely a boon to the rural poor women who undertake workable economic activities on their own. SHGs are voluntary association of people formed to accomplish some common goals. In this paper, an attempt has been made to evaluate the type of business and its performance carried out by women SHGs members and its impact on economic empowerment in rural areas.

Keywords


Empowerment, Development, Self-Help Groups.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.23872/aj%2F2017%2Fv7%2Fi2%2F168832