Micro Financing Regulation and Women Empowerment

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...

Micro enterprise and Women Empowerment- A study of Badarpur Development Block of Karimganj District (Assam, India)

The empowerment of women is crucial to the process of development of any community. Though women constitute almost half of our population and play a vital role in every sphere of life, their importance is not properly recognized by the society. They are generally suppressed and enjoy limited access to different fields of life, such as, education, society, culture, politics, business and so on. ...

Economic Empowerment of Women

Micro-finance and the empowerment of women — A review of the key issues

List of boxes Box 1: Gender and micro-finance: contrasting paradigms Box 2: Framework for empowerment Box 3: Underlying vision and essential elements of a gender policy for empowerment Box 4: Financial sustainability and empowerment: potentially positive interlinkages Box 5: Conditions of micro-finance delivery: some access, poverty alleviation and empowerment questions Box 6: Rethinking good p...

Empowerment of Pregnant Women

Introduction: Empowerment during pregnancy is defined as a sense of self- fulfillment and increased independence, promotion of interaction with individuals and environment leading to an increase in the spontaneous psychological energy to achieve successful pregnancy and childbirth. Education during pregnancy empowers women for better adjustment confronting physical and emotional changes assoc...