A Qualitative Study on Economic Empowerment of Rural Indian Women

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Economic Empowerment is multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered conception, which requires women to undertake greater share of control over resources which could be material, human , financial and intellectual. The present research paper is an attempt to explore efficient ways to do economic empowerment of rural women in India along with the evaluation of government programs in this regard. A conceptual research design has been adopted for the purpose of the study. The study is mainly based on secondary data collected from various national and international reports and various reputed journals The findings of this study give a clear demonstration that though Indian government, constitutional bodies and international organization including World Bank and United Nations strive hard, proper access to credit and land is unachievable for rural women in India. Gender disparity in income and inadequate technical competency are major obstruction in economic empowerment of rural women. It has been concluded that the integrated approaches implemented by UN has a great impact on economy growth. Five major components suggested by United Nations for economic empowerment of women have been assessed thoroughly in this research paper, which is widely known as “Integrated Approach”. This paper recommends the implementation of this integrated approach towards empowering women in rural India.

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