Role of Cooperative in Women Empowerment in Kaski District
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Faculty of Rural Development
Abstract
Empowerment of women is one of the very important issues in developing countries. As
women are the integral part of the society, her status and participation in decision making
as
well
as
economic
activities
is
very
low.
Cooperative
plays
important
role
in
improving
in women decision making by contributing in economic activities.
Cooperative is powerful tools to self-empower the poor especially women at world
level. The main aim of cooperative is empowerment of women. The paper discusses the
role of cooperatives in generating income for the rural population in the locality of the
municipality for sustainable rural development. A cooperative can be effective if
institutional arrangements simultaneously followed to break the vicious cycle of
poverty in a rural socio-economic context by increasing income generation and social
awareness according to the social and economic development situation. Under the
effective supervision and leadership of the members, if the cooperative can be well
managed and strengthened, it can potentially strengthen the area of transferability of
the rural community and thus contribute to sustainable rural development.
Women empowerment are measured by Economic Security, Household and economic
decision-making, legal Awareness mobility and family decision-making. This study
based on primary data through administered questionnaire to the women and some
office those who are involved in Cooperative program in Kaski district. The role of
cooperatives in everyday life and the socio-economic status of cooperative members
studied through discussion with cooperative members, cooperative officials, and local
officials. Descriptive and analytical research design has used to collect the opinions
and know about the behavior of respondents. Data analyzed by using percentage, pie
chart, trend line and table.
This Study investigate the social-economic improvement and decision-making power of
women after involvement in Cooperative programs. The result show a positive changes
on economic security, household economic decision making, legal awareness, mobility,
and family decision making after participating in Cooperative program. The world
scenario of cooperative role in income generation is mostly positive and progressive
and this study shows similar results in terms of their socio-economic status and changes
as a result of engaging in cooperative activities, so it should be promoted to the rural
community as it obliges the rural people to achieve together common social and
economic goal.