Women empowerment through community-based organisations in rural Karnataka
- Title
- Women empowerment through community-based organisations in rural Karnataka
- Creator
- John C.
- Description
- Women empowerment is an active multidimensional process to enable women to realize their identity and power in all spheres of life. Self Help Groups (SHGs) have played a significant role in women's empowerment. Through the SHGs, the dreams and desires of women came into reality. The current study examines women's empowerment through community-based organisations in rural Karnataka (Hoskote, Jamkhandi and Kolar). The chapter aims to determine the impact of SHGs on rural women's lives and whether it contributes to women's empowerment. The chapter follows a mixed-method research design. Thirty well-performing SHGs from three Centre for Social Action (CSA) project sites in rural Karnataka, namely Hoskote, Jamkhandi and Kolar, were considered for this chapter. A simple random sampling technique was used. Ten members from each SHG were selected, and three hundred SHG women samples were recruited. Responses from the samples were collected using pre-designed questionnaires. The results state that there is a well-evident improvement in women's economic, social, familial and political status after joining the SHG. The chapter concludes that SHG has caused significant change and development in women's socio-economic, familial and political life in rural Karnataka. 2024 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Source
- Models for Social Responsibility Action by Higher Education Institutions, pp. 149-164.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Subject
- Economic status; Empowerment; Familial status; Political status and SHG; SHG; Social status; Women
- Coverage
- John C., Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-889113251-1; 979-889113097-5
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
John C., “Women empowerment through community-based organisations in rural Karnataka,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18177.