Women Empowerment through Self Help Groups

Abstract

Empowerment becomes a powerful and popular word in the recent period which is directly related with the women development in all aspects. Empowerment is a broad concept, which includes social empowerment, political empowerment, educational empowerment and legal empowerment. Each port consists of unique characters and features, which facilitates to promote the overall development of the women and their participation in the society. Social empowerment of people through SHG is one of the essential studies concerned with the performance and achievements of the SHG and how it will be help to the social and economic empowerment of the people particularly down turn women. This paper focus on dimensions of social empowerment, social empowerment through SHGs, Economic empowerment, Functions of SHGs, Motivational Factors, Constrains and Problems.