Empowerment Of Women In Rural Uttarakashi

Women's empowerment is a compartitively new concept in the domain of women's development. It is bieng felt increasingly that women's subordination and exploitation is a result of their powerless in partiachal society- hence the need for empowerment. Empowerment is a complex term and may be measured in terms of women's freedom to shape their lives, their control over resources their access to basic facilities, their level of political participation, their ability accepted by family and society and their ability to remove hindrances in their path to progress.
About Author :
Dr. (Mrs) Zainab Rahman has been teaching Sociology for the past two decades. She has many research papers to her credit, which were presented at National and International Seminars and Conferences. Her articles have been published in books and journals of repute. Her first book, `Women'and Society 'was published two years back and was well received.
Contents :
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Ground Realities of Rural Women and Development Programmes 4. Rural Women of Uttarakhand 5. Socio Economic Status of the Respondents 6. Rural Women and Political Participation 7. Decision Making Process and Women 8. Women's Access to Basic Facilites 9. Economic Independence of Women 10. Level of Empowerment of Respondents and Main Hindrances to Empowerment 11. Rural Women of Kumaon and Their Level of Empowerment 12. Conclusion 13. Case Studies Bibliography Index