Social Impact Assessment: Women’s Collectives in Urban Women’s Economic Capacitation

Abstract

In our country, even after 75 years of independence, race, caste and gender affect women empowerment negatively. The norm that women are responsible for household chores is a factor in explaining India’s low labour force participation rate. Women are still considered only for birthing and rearing children, cooking, cleaning, washing and caring for elderly. They are finding it hard to come out of this chore. Here comes the role of Women’s Collectives which can help them directly or indirectly to come out of their comfort zone. In our country, many WCs have started working for the empowerment of women but their numbers are not encouraging. Moreover, most of them are working in limited/ select fields. This article brings out the different problems in this regard and the role of WCs.