Women Empowerment : Issues and Challenges

Contents: Preface. I. Women empowerment: an overview: 1. Status of women and empowerment/J. Senthil Velmurugan. 2. Women empowerment/N. Ramani and G. Ravi. 3. Women empowerment: special reference to India/Harish Adke. 4. Women empowerment programmes in India: concerns and strategy/G. Jayalakshmi. 5. Women empowerment in India/A. Sulthan Mohideen. 6. Empowerment of tribal women in India/G.D. Kharat. II. Educational empowerment: 7. Women empowerment through education/K. Rajmohan. 8. Education a key for women empowerment/K. Krishnakumar and P. Baby. 9. Women educational programmes in tribal areas: an overview/G. Jayalakshmi. 10. Progressive development in the socio-demographic status of women through education/Chitra Sivasubramaniam. 11. Disparity in tribal education: an exploratory analysis/K. Krithiga and R. Annapoorani. 12. Political empowerment of women/R. Srinivasan. 13. Constitutional rights for empowerment of Indian women/E. Murugesan. 14. Decentralization and political empowerment of scheduled caste women in Kerala/T. Sundara Raj. 15. Social legislations and women empowerment/P. Ganesan and K. Suriyan. III. Socio-economic empowerment: 16. Women entrepreneurs: a pathway to women empowerment/U.K. Teke and S.B. Sanap. 17. Women empowerment through entrepreneurship: profile barriers and practical recommendations/S. Arulkumar and C. Madhavi. 18. Women empowerment through the role performance of SHG leaders/K. Krishnakumar and P.M. Sugavnaswari. 19. SHGs: a tool for empowering women: a case study in Dharmapuri/R. Rathidevi. 20. Empowerment of women entrepreneur in rural India/M. Ketharaj. 21. Economic empowerment of tribal women through entrepreneurship/R. Annapoorani and G. Gnanarubi. 22. Employment generation through SHGs in Dharmapuri District Tamilnadu/T. Subramanian and C. Paramasivan. 23. Economic empowerment of migrant women in brick manufacturing units in Coimbatore/K. Arulselvam. 24. Empowerment of rural women self help groups in Northern Tamilnadu/P. Palanivel, S. Sivakumar and D. Sureskumar. 25. Women empowerment through microfinance/M. Chandrasekaran. 26. Microfinance as an effective tool of urban poverty alleviation in Nasik District/Dnyaneshwar N. Sonawane. 27. Women empowerment through micro enterprises: an empirical study/Yathish Kumar. 28. SHGs: pathway to women empowerment/K. Sivakumar. 29. A study on performance of self help groups in Keerapalayam block, Cuddalore/K. Suriyan. 30. Problems faced by women entrepreneurs in India/S. Rajamohan and T. Vijayaraghavan. 31. Women empowerment of marketing for entrepreneurs/S. Jayasankar. 32. Women empowerment through SHGs in Namakkal District/C. Paramasivan. 33. Role of self help groups in women development/R.D. Bhosale. 34. Self help groups and women empowerment/B. Rajamani and M. Julius Prasad. Index.