Abstract
Empowerment is a multi-dimensional process, which should enable women or group of women to realize their full identity and power in all spheres of life. At Present 50 percent of world population and receive 10 percent of the world income and own even less than 1percent of the world’s property. They suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in terms of literacy rates, labour participation rates and earnings. Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. . Empowering women particularly rural women is a challenge. Women are economically empowered through small scale entrepreneurship programme with the help of Self Help Movement. J. Cooper, famous Anthropologist has defined the position of women in more scientific way as “Status of women in any society depends on her recognized rights, duties, liberties and opportunities – chiefly in the domestic, economic, social, political and religious spheres”. Economic empowerment of women led to the empowerment of women in several aspects such as socio- economic opportunity, property rights, political representation, social equality, personal rights, family development, and community development and at last the nation development. The SHGs are voluntary associations of people formed to attain some common goals. This paper looks into the impact of Self Help groups in the upliftment of women status through their contribution to the empowered society. The present study highlights to evaluate the Economic Empowerment of Women through SHGs in TamilNadu.
Keywords: Economic Empowerment, Rural Women, Demographical Justice, Literacy Rates, Poverty etc.
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