Womens Education and Empowerment in Rural India [Hardcover]

This is a book about understanding womens empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to womens economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a state-funded social sector programme located in the education department  Mahila Samakhya (MS)  in Bihar, one of the socially and educationally most underdeveloped Indian states. The book presents findings of the three-year research that adopted a mixed-methods approach and evaluated the impact of MS on various facets of empowerment of women coming from the most marginalized communities. The study, therefore, tries to go beyond evaluating the MS programme and uses the research findings and insights to raise certain critical issues pertaining to social policy planning and implementation, especially in the context of womens education and empowerment.

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1. Empowerment, Education and Social Change: Understanding the conceptual context of Mahila Samakhya 2. Women in Bihar: the multivalent contexts of deprivation and struggle 3. Womens economic empowerment: Indivisible part of a synergetic process 4. Breaking the cycle: Understanding the inter-generational impact of MS 5. Economics of Empowerment: A Web of Negotiations and Adjustments 6. Conclusion: Lessons for understanding pathways to womens empowerment

 

This is a book about understanding womens empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to womens economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a state-funded social sector programme located in the education department  Mahila Samakhya (MS)  in Bihar, one of the socially and educationally most underdeveloped Indian states.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardbackl“-