Economic empowerment of tribal women in Karnataka: a case study in Mysore and Chamarajanagara Districts

Heggade, Puttaraja and Heggade, O. D. (2012) Economic empowerment of tribal women in Karnataka: a case study in Mysore and Chamarajanagara Districts. Studies of Tribes and Tribals, 10 (2). pp. 173-181. ISSN 0972-639X

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0972639X.2012.11886655

Abstract

Women in a tribal society play a vital role in their social, cultural, economic and religious ways of life and are considered as an economic asset in their society. But they are still lagging far behind in the various walks of life like education, employment, good health and economic empowerment etc. Empowering may be understood as enabling weaker sections like poor women, especially tribal women to acquire and to possess power and resources, in order to make decisions on their own After the analysis of the data and field observation, it is revealed that lack of education, poor health status and infant mortality rate, low level of wage work, lack of self employment opportunity, organising capacity and leadership quality are the main obstacles to the economic empowerment of tribal women. The government and non- governmental organisations should prepare suitable plans and programmes for the economic empowerment of tribal women.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: A Arts and Humanities > Economics
Divisions: Department of > Economics and Cooperation
Depositing User: C Swapna Library Assistant
Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2019 06:26
Last Modified: 08 Aug 2019 06:26
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/6236

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