Kudumbashree: Promoting the Self-Help Group Model of Empowerment Through Women Entrepreneurship in Kerala - A Study.

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management Pub Date : 2016-05-02 DOI:10.2139/SSRN.2795415

Ashutosh Kumar, Jasheena Rakhin

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Women are the basic unit of the society. They become even more critical as a long-term solution to a sustainable livelihood. The women entrepreneurship through empowerment aims to create human resources within the productive sector and to sustain for the further development process. Kerala is only the state in India that attained a remarkable status fulfilling all the criterion of various social well-beings compare with some of the developed countries in the world, which is widely known as ‘Kerala model of development’. This achievement reflects in respect of literacy level of women, salary or wage structure of employment, technical and professional services, women got equality with men. This Political and socio-economic scenario within the state, reinforce to redefine the consciousness about poverty concept. In this sense, poverty is dynamically viewed as freedom of choice from a socio-economic functioning than only the concern of income or money. Again, poverty reduction is not only the matter of an overall economic growth in a society, but also that interconnected with various social aspects like women empowerment and women entrepreneurship. All these multi-dimensional approach lead the government to form a female community intended poverty reduction project in the state and results to the birth of “Kudumbashree”. The mission has set as self-help groups (SHG) model of women empowerment to encouraging the wide range of female entrepreneurial activities. Now Kudumbashree became one of the largest women's movements in Asia. This research study was conducted within the time period of three months from July to September 2015, among the female entrepreneurs those who are actively participating in Kudumbashree mission in Kerala. The aim of this paper was to explore the activities and influence of Kudumbashree and the way it stimulates women empowerment, as well as female entrepreneurship.

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库杜姆巴什里:通过喀拉拉邦妇女创业促进自助团体赋权模式——一项研究。

妇女是社会的基本单位。作为可持续生计的长期解决方案，它们变得更加重要。通过赋予权力使妇女创业的目的是在生产部门内创造人力资源，并维持进一步的发展进程。与世界上一些发达国家相比，喀拉拉邦是印度唯一一个达到了各种社会福利标准的显著地位的州，这被广泛称为“喀拉拉邦发展模式”。这一成就反映在妇女的文化水平、就业的工资或工资结构、技术和专业服务方面，妇女获得了与男子平等。这种国家内部的政治和社会经济情景，强化了对贫困概念的重新定义意识。从这个意义上说，贫穷被动态地视为一种社会经济功能的选择自由，而不仅仅是收入或金钱的问题。同样，减少贫困不仅是一个社会整体经济增长的问题，而且还与赋予妇女权力和妇女创业等各种社会方面相互关联。所有这些多维度的方法导致政府在邦内形成了一个女性社区扶贫项目，并导致了“Kudumbashree”的诞生。特派团设立了妇女赋权自助小组的模式，以鼓励广泛的妇女创业活动。现在，Kudumbashree成为亚洲最大的妇女运动之一。本研究是在2015年7月至9月的三个月时间内，在喀拉拉邦积极参与Kudumbashree任务的女性企业家中进行的。本文的目的是探讨Kudumbashree的活动和影响，以及它如何激发女性赋权和女性创业精神。

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Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business, Management and Accounting (all)

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期刊介绍： Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management (ISSN 0975-2854) : is a double blind peer reviewed refereed monthly journal that publishes papers on diverse areas of management such as Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Management, International Business, Knowledge Management, Environmental Management, Data Analysis and Decision Making, Technology and Operations Management, Strategic Decision Making, Negotiations and Competitive Decision Making, Ethics in Management, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Management, Rural Management, General Management, Hotel Management, Intellectual Property Rights, Education Management, Communication Management, Lifecycle Management, Spiritual Management, Tourism Management, Hospitality Management, Leisure Management, Inventory Management, Waste Management, Hospital Management, among others. The objective of the Journal is to disseminate knowledge, which ensures good practice of professional management and its focal point is on research and reflections relevant to academicians and practicing managers. The Journal enjoys a pan India reach and a discernible international subscriber and readership base.