Women empowerment in self help groups: Enterprise, income and efficiency Preethi Battu1, Acharya S.K.2,*, Banerjee Arnab3, Haque Monirul3, Bera Sreemoyee3 1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri-413722, Maharashtra 2Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia-741252, West Bengal 3Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia-741252, West Bengal *Corresponding author email id: acharya09sankar@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 March, 2024. Abstract Empowering women is one of the most crucial concerns of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of the United Nations. Women need, at the best, a tiny opportunity either to build their own pathway to empowerment. In this study we identified the relationship among and between some exogenous variables and change in empowerment of the women in SHGs. The present study was conducted in the year 2019 in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradeshwith 80 respondents selected randomly from two villages, Pandurangapuram and Gopavaram, under Nandyal and Mahanadi mandal respectively. In correlation coefficient analysis, variables such as education (x3), extension contacts (x7), no of trainings received (x8), mass media exposure (x9) market facilities (x10) and land holding (x11) have shown positive significant correlation with the dependent variable. The results of Regression showed that 11 casual variables together have contributed 84.10 per cent of variance in consequent variable i.e., change in empowerment (y1). After step down regression the variables retained are education (x3), no of trainings received (x8), distance from market (x10) and land holdings (x11) which indicates that these variables are the most important causal variables that affects the dependent variable. The result of path analysis showed that the variable age (x1) has got highest indirect effect on change in empowerment (y1). Top Keywords Change, Decision-making, Empowerment, Self help group, Women. Top |