Role of Micro Credit in Women's Empowerment

ISBN-13: 9783846582664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 64 str.

Sarfraz Khan;Afrah Choudary;Hafeez-Ur- Rehman

Opis

Present study was conducted in District Gujrat to investigate the impact of the microcredit scheme of Punjab Rural Support Program (PRSP) on womens empowerment. Researches throughout the developing world have highlighted the impact of microcredit programs on womens empowerment. This research was divided into three main sections. First section deals with the status of women at housed level before taking microcredit while second and third sections deal with the impact of microcredit in raising womens awareness and womens empowerment after taking microcredit. In the second section information was analyzed that whether microcredit increased the awareness among women regarding their status, legal rights and importance of say at household level. In the last section a situational analysis of the women after taking microcredit is presented. The data analysis has shown that there is a positive impact of microcredit program introduced by PRSP in the rural Gujrat on womens empowerment.

O autorze

Sarfraz Khan is presently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan. He is doing his PhD in Anthropology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His main areas of interests include; Gender Issues, Migration, and Micro Credit.