CREATIVEPRENEUR ON SEKOPERPROJECT : WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM FOR ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION

Economic Empowerment of Women

Women Empowerment and Economic Development

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...

Pnm-8: The Effect of Pregnant Women Empowerment Program on Elements of Empowerment and Their Satisfaction

Background: To determine the effectiveness of pregnant women empowerment program on elements of empowerment and their satisfaction of prenatal cares. Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted at a prenatal clinic. The total number of samples were 70; that pregnant women were randomly assigned to either control (n=35) or experimental group (n=35). Women in the experiment...

Does economic empowerment protect women from intimate partner violence?

BACKGROUND The current study compared working and non-working groups of women in relation to intimate partner violence. The paper aims to explore the relationship between women's economic empowerment, their exposures to IPV and their help seeking behavior using a nationally representative sample in India. METHODS This was a cross sectional study of 124,385 ever married women of reproductive a...

Between Emancipation and Domination: Habermasian Reflections on the Empowerment and Disempowerment of the Human Subject

1 See, for example, J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action. Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, trans. T. McCarthy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987 [1981]), hereafter TCA I, pp. xli and xliv. See also J. Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action, trans. B. Fultner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001 [1984]), p...