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2.2.7 Empowerments of Women through Self Help Groups Empowerment as a concept was introduced at the International Women’s Conference in 1985 in Nairobi. The conference defined empowerment as a ‘redistribution of social power and control of resources in favor of women’. Women development in recent years emphasized on providing equal opportunities to women by removing gender bias, empowering women and creating self reliance among them. In the recent years, empowerment of women has been recognized as a central issue in determining the status of women. The participation of women in SHGs has made a significant impact on their empowerment in both social and economic aspects. Empowerment of women is essential for the development of the full potential …show more content…

In democracy, an empowered woman is able to exercise her judgment independently and correctly. Empowerment is expected to develop confidence in one self and bring faith in one self. Empowerment directly affects the life of women positively. The lifestyle, social status, struggle against injustice, opposition to various kinds of harassment in the society, etc., are the inbuilt qualities of women empowerment. In the light of the above facts, both the government and non-governmental organizations are playing a meaningful, fruitful and effective role in undertaking various activities for women’s empowerment in an enlightened society. By empowerment, women would be able to develop self-esteem, confidence and would realize their potential and enhance their collective bargaining power; Women’s empowerment is viewed as a continuum of several inter-related and mutually reinforcing components; For capacity building and skill development, especially the ability to plan, make decisions, organize, manage and carry out activities, to deal with people and institutions in the world around them; Women participation in the house, community and society. Thus, empowerment is ‘a process of awareness and capacity building, leading to greater participation, greater decision-making power and control the transformative action’. The empowerment of women covers both individual and collective transformation. …show more content…

The findings revealed that 85 per cent of them facing difficulty in getting good price for their product, lack of common work place (83.00%), lack of proper marketing facilities (75.00%), problems in getting loan money released in time (66.00%) and lack of training facilities (50.00%). Kumaran (1997) concluded that passivity in self help group is mainly on account of irregularly is payment of savings and employment of loans, non-adherence to norms set by the group and lack of mutual trust and confidence among members. Regular defaulting by some members resulted in dissolution of some SHGs. Snehalatha (1998) listed out the problems faced by group members as selling produce without assured market outlets, lack of co-operation and team work among group members, non availability of sufficient matching grant in time, ineffective group leadership, lack of training in group formation, unequal work delegation, mismanagement of accounts and discontinuance of internal lending. The problems perceived by group leaders were lack of time to perform home, farm and group activities, no reimbursement of money spent for group purposes, explaining accounts to illiterate members, resolving group conflicts, misunderstanding of group members that leaders benefit more and there are no economic incentives for being a group

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