Women Empowerment through Self Help Groups (SHGs) – A Review of Literature

Abstract

Women are amongst the poorest and the most vulnerable population of our society. They are not able to reap the benefits of the various developmental schemes launched by the government for their betterment. For raising their socio-economic conditions, the scheme of Self-Help Groups was started many years ago in India. In various parts of the country, Self-Help Groups, which are an informal association of women in any rural or semi-urban area, are working very well with the objective of empowering women economically, socially, politically, institutionally and spiritually. Thousands of the women in India are building their lives, their families and their society through Self-help groups. The broad goals of a self-help group are to bring about socio-economic change in the lives of its members and society. The present research paper seeks to review various Literature published in various Journals and researcher has considered 30 such published papers for the review and found out the Research Gap from such literatures.