Key to Empowerment of Indian Women: Is Duration of SHG Membership Effective? (original) (raw)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between women’s involvement in SHG and their empowerment. One set of questionnaires, to analyzing the respondent’s association with SHG’s and corresponding empowerment. Statistical tools, such as descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation and linear regression and ANOVA was used to analyze the data. This paper finds that the length of membership in SHGs had a significant impact on the intensity of women’s social, personal political, empowerment and their perceptions on awareness on health and hygiene aspects. The findings provide the pivotal insight that the duration of the SHG member can play a crucial role in women empowerment.

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