SELF-HELP GROUPS: A VEHICLE FOR EMPOWERING RURAL WOMEN
Abstract
Empowerment helps individuals govern their lives, communities, and society. It helps one realise their individuality and authority in all facets of life. Empowerment happens in social, economic, political, personal, family, and cultural areas. Self-Help Groups strengthen women throughout time. Self-help organisations assist thousands of impoverished and disenfranchised Indians better their lives, families, and society. Self-help Groups have been involved in infrastructure development, marketing and technology support, communication level, self-confidence, family violence, interaction with outsiders, saving pattern, change in cumulative saving pattern per month, politics, community activities, etc. Illiterate women have gained confidence. Women may now assist males in agricultural season, family business, kid education, marriage, and other household needs. The aim of the paper is to examine the influence of self help group towards Empowering Rural Women. The main data was collected using the convenience sample technique by the researcher, and it was analysed using ANOVAs and Pearson correlation.Anova results reveal that motivating factors significant influence on women's participation in self-help groups (H01); and similarly, economic empowerment, social empowerment and personal empowerment factors significant influence on on women's participation in self-help groups. Correlation results revealed that motivation factors, it has a strong correlation with Personal Empowerment and Social Empowerment at 2-tailed significance level. Likewise, an Economic Empowerment factor has a significant correlated with Personal Empowerment and Social Empowerment at 2-tailed significance level. Similarly, Social empowerment has a significant correlated with Purchase Personal Empowerment at 2-tailed significance level. Respectively, personal empowerment has a strong correlation with Economic Empowerment, Motivation factors and Social Empowerment at 2-tailed significance level.
