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Abstract: Debate on Gender Development trace the subordination of women to the structural factors that renders women powerless. In this context strategy to make the development programs women inclusive gained significance. It is widely accepted that micro–credit program is one of the tools of empowerment, as it provides sufficient space and scope for women to participate in the design and development of the program. The power of participation assumes significance in the light of a general belief that women lack an access to the institutions that exercise power over them. Accordingly, efforts to enable women to acquire power through empowerment programs were being made by large number of Government and Non– Government Organizations. There are some consolations that women’s position in the family, community and society has been improving. Despite pursuing empowerment programs on a large scale, significant strides, which assures of structural changes, are yet to be made. This calls for an exploratory study of empowerment programs aimed at empowerment of women. Any serious intellectual sociopolitical enquiry has to take cognisance of the multicultural and multilingual social terrain of India, which renders itself as a social laboratory. Any analysis that takes cognisance of the intricacies of the issues raised earlier will have a wider reach and relevance in the study of ‘Gender and Development’.

Keywords: Empowerment; micro–credit; gender development; civil society; NGO.

Language: English

22 pages, 2004

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