Women's Empowerment through Self Help Groups

Self help groups make use of the microcredit system for the cause of poverty eradication by eliminating the need for collateral thus making a large section of society creditworthy. This system after it became a huge success in Bangladesh as Bangladesh Grameen Bank was adopted in many regions in order to recreate its success. In India, self-help groups were used to bring out some improvement in women"s condition. Thus women empowerment was aimed through starting of many self-help groups in India. Empowerment is imparting power to women to take decisions in their own matters and being in control of their own life. Empowerment occurs at cognitive, political, economic and physical aspects. The empowerment of women in all walks of life would happen only by the economic independence of women. Which increase their dignity and self-worth. The self-help groups have tried to raise the women"s role to that of the contributor to family income in this paper the whether self-help groups were successful in their venture in light if very few examples are analyzed along with its what are the drawbacks that limit the self-help groups in achieving its maximum potential are observed.