Description
Women?s empowerment is a comparatively new concept in the domain of women?s development. It is being felt increasingly the women?s subordination and exploitation is a result of their powerlessness in patriarchal society hence the need for empowerment. Empowerment is a complex term and may be measured in terms of women?s freedom to shape their lives, their control over resources, their access to basic facilities, their level of political participation, their ability to take their own decisions and let them accepted by family and society and their ability to remove hindrances in their path to progress. This book provides valuable information about rural women of Uttarakhand regarding all the above mentioned criteria, on the basis of primary data collected by the author for her research project and secondary data collected from other research studies. Rural women of Uttarakhand are know for their courage, perseverance and hard work. They are active in sociopolitical movements and are striving to improve their lives. But they still face many problems and need more guidance and encouragement from government and nongovernment agencies to empower themselves.
