It is been
almost two decades since ‘empowerment’ emerged as a buzzword. The development
policies often change their loci of attention in framing the solutions for
betterment of society and ‘empowerment’ of women has emerged as a powerful tool
in this process. As rightly put by Neila Kabeer, empowerment entails a process
of change. Several Self Help Groups federation models have been taken up by
various state governments in India exclusively for nurturing women's self-help
groups in rural areas that lead to the change. The federations, of which Indira
Kranthi Patham is one, provide monetary and non-monetary assistance for women
and also facilitate entrepreneurship. The present study tries to find out the
rural women empowerment of SHGs in Ranga Reddy District. Path analysis is used
for analysis. The women are divided into two groups – micro-entrepreneurs and
non-entrepreneurs and paths of empowerment for both these groups have been
identified. Multi-group analysis is done along with pairwise parameters for assessing
the statistical significance of differences in paths. The major finding of the
study is the variation in the paths of empowerment of both groups. Six domains
of empowerment were used for the study namely – cognitive empowerment
(empowerment from within), economic empowerment, empowerment within the family,
social empowerment, political empowerment and collective empowerment. The most
striking findings of the study are cognitive empowerment, and empowerment
within the family are comparatively high among entrepreneurs whereas, social,
political and collective empowerment are high among non-entrepreneurs.
Author(s) Details:
V. Janaki Thenneti
Aurora’s PG College,
Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
Please see
the book here: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cpassr/v1/530
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