Women empowerment in seven dimensions through self help
- 1. Women Empowerment in Seven Dimensions Through Self Help Groups In Arunachal Pradesh Presented By Sonam Prabha
- 2. Empowerment It is the process by which he or she take control of authority or posses power to do something. Power is the root in empowerment. Power can be understood in different ways: Power Over Power To Power With Power Within
- 3. • It is awareness of gendered power structures, self-esteem, and self-confidence. • Micro-finance with Self Help Groups play an effective role for promoting women empowerment . “Women are worshipped as goddess in INDIA, But not given her true position.” Women Empowerment
- 4. Why need of women empowerment? • Gender discrimination. • Women education. • Deperived of Decision Making Power. • Deperived of Freedom of Movement • Deperived of Access Of Employment . • Female infanticide . • Dowry • Marriage in same caste and child marriage. • Atrocities on women: With their age, they have been raped, kicked,killed, subdued & humiliated almost daily. The main problems faced by women in past and present
- 5. SELF HELP GROUP SHG is considered as right and best approach for the all-round development of the society and thereby of the nation. SHG help women to have a positive self-image and takes an active part in taking decision for herself and her family. SHG help women to possesses knowledge how to stand on her own feet. SHG helps women to empower her children regardless of the sex. It provide confidence to woman to feel ,confidence and competence to face problems.
- 7. SHGs on different dimensions Study Area: Three districts out of 19 districts of Arunachal Pradesh namely Papum Pare, Lower Subansiri and Kurung Kumey. Nature of the Study: empirical in nature based absolutely on field survey. Sampling Design and Size: Stratified random sampling method was adopted for selection of 10 SHGs from each district for intensive study to achieve the proposed objective. Total number of SHGs of three districts under study was 30 (10×3). 10 members of each SHG were selected. Therefore, total number of selected respondents from 30 SHGs was 300 (30×10). Tools for Data Analysis: The completed interview schedule shall be scrutinized, verified, edited and arranged statistically. Simple numerical calculations, graphical representations and women empowerment index (WEI) and activity wise change in women empowerment have been considered to write up the report of the study.
- 8. Activity wise Change in Women Empowerment: WEI = Ph×3 + Pm×2 + Ps×1 + Pn×0 • WEI = women empowerment index • Ph = Percentage of empowerment have highly increased. • Pm = Percentage of empowerment have moderately increased. • Ps = Percentage of empowerment have slightly increased. • Pn = Percentage of empowerment have no change
- 9. Impact of SHGs in Empowering Women SHG have played a tremendous role in above mentioned dimension of empowerment. SHGs have helped the families to improve their economic conditions. SHGs was the first step towards women empowerment. SHG approach is conceived to empower to each individual woman in such a manner that she can face and solve all types of problems in her life.
- 10. Empowerment in Economic Dimension Sl. Indicator Highly Moderately Slightly No change WEI Rank No. increase increase increase order 1 Reduction of economical dependency on 80 15 5 0 275 1 husband (240) (45) (15) 2 Authority to spend money for house 79 11 10 0 269 2 (237) (33) (30) 3 Control over Resources/ 61 31 8 0 253 Household Assets (183) (93) (24) 3 4 Increase in knowledge about the business of 52 45 3 0 249 4 micro enterprises (156) (135) (9) 5 Increase in saving after joining SHG 53 27 20 0 233 (159) (81) (60) 5 6 Ownership of productive and consumer assets 40 35 20 5 210 6 (120) (105) (60) (15) 7 Authority to spend money for self 21 49 20 10 181 7 (63) (147) (60) (30) 8 Increase in income after joining SHG 32 10 58 0 174 8 (96) (30) (174) 9 Control over micro-enterprises, 13 20 40 27 119 9 (39) (60) (120) (81) Percentage of SHG Members in the Empowerment of Economic Dimension
- 11. 275 269 253 249 233 210 181 174 119 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Reduction of economical dependency on husband Authority to spend money for house Control over Resources/ Household Assets Increase in knowledge about the business of micro enterprises Increase in saving after joining SHG Ownership of productive and consumer assets Authority to spend money for self Increase in income after joining SHG Control over micro- enterprises, Series 1