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A STUDY ON WOMEN IN CORPORATE WORLD
Women empowerment and gender equality have become topics of utmost importance in the recent times, because gender inequality and its socio-economic and cultural dimensions are all pervasive in the third world as well as in the developed world. However, in the third world, the problem of gender inequality is more acutely associated with economic disempowerment of women. And therefore, of recent, several initiatives are being taken up in the third world countries for the economic empowerment of women so as to reduce the gender inequality. Among these initiatives, the Self-Help Group (SHG) movement, which is getting wide spread all over the third world, has become the prominent one. The research interest of the present study was mainly to examine whether SHGs actually contribute to empower women economically as well as socially. The study has also examined another problem that whether there is significant variation in the performance of government-run and NGO- run SHGs. The study depends mainly on primary data, collected through sample survey of households of SHG women. Apart from the household survey, a few interviews with the respondents and officers in charge of different SHGs were also conducted.
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