Self Help Group Of Rural Assam

Gender inequality has been a crucial issue throughout the years all around the world for the past few decades. Women are mistreated and often oppressed by patriarchal societies. Women’s rights are often dismissed and it is believed that women are not capable of being independent which has highly affects women population.

This project proposal aims to seek funding of $50,000 to expand the existing Prostate Cancer Support Group by employing a part-time

Women empowerment means to identify all kinds of oppression based on gender roles and to face it. This process has two dimensions: individual and collective. At the individual level, access to information about gender role and its social source lead women to seek for their autonomy and freedom. When they realize that the female social being is a social construction, nor a changeless reality, they can better indentify

It has been experienced from time immemorial that there has always lain a very big and noticeable gap in the roles that both women and men play in the everyday societal developments. The issue according to most of the renowned researches is more elusive to the women as they are the ones that are mostly faced by the double standards in the society and this could include very harsh challenges as far as economic and financial status is concerned. Some of the roles of women in the society and more typically, in the house-hold, were very much considered inferior as compared to that of the men who in addition, were given an upper hand

According to Hinduism the female was created by Brahman as part of the duality in creation, to provide company to men and facilitate procreation, progeny and continuation of family linage. The Vedas suggest that a woman’s primary duty is to help her husband in performing obligatory duties and enable him to continue his family tradition. Her primary duty is to give birth to his children and take care of them. Hinduism is a predominantly male dominated religion. Woman play a secondary role. The situation is gradually changing. It is difficult to draw generalizations about the status of present day Hindu women because of society is complex. In general, life in cities is much different from life in the rural areas. Those who live abroad live in different conditions than those who live in the country. Yet, we have ample indications that women are still subject to many restrictions and disabilities in rural area as well as urban areas. The financial independence of woman and the education levels of the family play an important role in this regard. Women in urban areas face numerous challenges in their professions and personal lives. But overall, life is better for them compared to the past. Love marriage outside of the caste or community are scorned and sometimes the couples are killed or excommunicated by the elders in the family or village. Widows can now have a life of their own and even remarry. They draw a lot of sympathy. But

Gender inequality is displayed in many countries around the globe. In India, the society begins gendering as soon as a child is born. In most cases, the birth of a daughter is unwelcome but that of a son is celebrated. The boys are brought up bold and outgoing while the girls are expected to be at home and do chores. While the other discriminations like economic or social discriminations are present outside the home, but gender discrimination is present outside and inside households. In a familial setup, the father is the head of the family and decision maker. The mother generally performs the ‘home making’. Even if the woman is employed, she is expected to do the domestic chores, in addition to her job. Even though she earns, she does not have the freedom to plan her salary or decide anything.

Women and men have had certain roles in society that were understood amongst them to be specified for their particular gender. Males were known to have the leading role as head of the house hold and the bread winner while the woman’s duty was to stay at home and take care of the house and children. While many people years ago deemed this way of life and practice to be the right and ethical thing to do, times have changed and so this kind of treatment towards a woman’s equality must be questioned. Even though times have changed, this mindset of a woman’s ability to be as good as a man has not completely gone away. In today’s society a woman contributes to the economy and her family as equally as that of a man. Therefore, women should share equal rights and opportunities as their gender counterparts.

A community based project that I would like to start would be on the effectiveness of assistance programs for low-income families in rural areas. This project would analyze and compare the current status of the population being studied to its pervious status. Participants may include local community members who have utilized the assistance programs, and those who work or collaborate within the assistance programs. The main objective of this project would be to identify the effectiveness of this assistance program, its usage rate, any deficiencies or errors, and if it has had a significant impact on the status of the population being studied.

I was filled with anxiety at the beginning of the semester when I found out that I would have to go to at least three support group meetings. Filled with thoughts about how they would receive me, knowing that I did not have nor ever had an addiction. I did not want them to believe that I was just there to dissect their lives and that I did not care. The last thing that I desired was to complicate a safe space for people who may have never had that. Nevertheless, once I got to each meeting, I realized that those feelings were my own negative self-talk.

The grassroots organization was formed in 1996 by both men and women in order to better the lives of women, in an area stricken with poverty. The organization began as a farming initiative group that centered on joint farming. Joint farming meant that women would help each other with planting, weeding, and harvesting. By assisting one another, it helped to keep costs down, making farming more accessible and affordable for the women. As the organization grew, it branched further then farming into encouraging women to fulfill their civic duties. Traditionally, men were the only ones that held council positions within the village but the Ntankah Village Women Common Initiative Group helped changed this. The association effectively helped women to become a member of the council and to be able to participate politically. Another area that the organization provides women access to medicine and medical help relating to pregnancy and HIV/AIDS. In rural communities, it is very difficult for women to obtain the help that they need and sometimes, they even lack education surrounding the issues, especially with HIV/AIDS. Lastly, the association expanded to education. By educating young girls and women to become literate, it provides them with the necessary skills, it gives them a way into the job market, helping them to rise out of poverty. The history of the Ntankah Village Women Common Initiative Group sheds light on the critical needs that they are providing to not only the women but also the community.

To ensure full participation of women in every sector, we need to ensure proper education of all women. Without proper education we cannot ensure women’s participation. Health is another important issue to ensure women’s participation, most of the women

Traditions and culture can have an impact on protection, intervention and support provided to rural women (Shoaf, 2004). It is not uncommon for women to

It is also stated that these female minorities typically live transient. This idea relates to the notions of routine activity theory, which states that a lack of social ties make it easier for an individual to be transient. As a result, individuals become vulnerable to victimization due to diminished social cohesiveness. This relates to my paper due to the continuation of victimization towards women who are perceived to be “less” of a human. This ideology directly relates to India’s patriarchal dominance that treats women, regardless of class from a lower

Throughout the history of mankind, the rank of women has been extremely pivotal in the development of the humans. At present, the progress of the nation is determined by the high positions of the women in the society in terms of the employment and the work. It is said that without the contribution of the women in the political, business, social, economic and national activities, the growth of the country will stagnate. Although in the past, the women were more accustomed to working in homes and taking care of children, etc. but now they are stepping into the outside world due to advances in education for women and increasing awareness.

The development of rural Bangladesh has figured prominent in the development plans and programmes of the 1970s. It is well known that majority of the people of Bangladesh live mainly in rural area under mass poverty. Poverty reduction has therefore become an important aspect of rural development (Islam.1992). As women in Bangladesh compose half of the total population, it certainly demands a remarkable involvement of women in the process of development process to alleviate poverty. There have been many institutional involvements taken so far in this context.