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Self-Help Group Strategy to Empower Rural Women


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1 Department of Home Science Extension, College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), India
 

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The present study on the role of SHGs in empowering rural women was taken up during January 2014 in four villages of Dharwad taluka of the total 159 groups registered during 2008-09. Five had discontinued, 70 were in to only money saving and lending and 84 groups had taken up enterprise were selected and 2001 members formed the sample. Three aspects of empowerment of women were studied namely;socio-psychological, economic and politicol-legal. The findings revealed a high socio-psychological economic and politicol-legal. The findings revealed a high socio-psychological empowerment with an index of 73.72, followed by economic empowerment with an index of 65.57 and the least was politico-legal empowerment of 52.98.

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Empowerment, Self-Help Group, Rural Women.
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Authors

Shobha Nagnur
Department of Home Science Extension, College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), India
Rekha Rayanagoudar
Department of Home Science Extension, College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), India
Veena Chandavari
Department of Home Science Extension, College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), India
Vijayalaxmi Pawar
Department of Home Science Extension, College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), India

Abstract


The present study on the role of SHGs in empowering rural women was taken up during January 2014 in four villages of Dharwad taluka of the total 159 groups registered during 2008-09. Five had discontinued, 70 were in to only money saving and lending and 84 groups had taken up enterprise were selected and 2001 members formed the sample. Three aspects of empowerment of women were studied namely;socio-psychological, economic and politicol-legal. The findings revealed a high socio-psychological economic and politicol-legal. The findings revealed a high socio-psychological empowerment with an index of 73.72, followed by economic empowerment with an index of 65.57 and the least was politico-legal empowerment of 52.98.

Keywords


Empowerment, Self-Help Group, Rural Women.