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Womens Education and Empowerment in Rural India

Jyotsna Jha presently heads Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS), located in Bangalore, India. CBPS is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organisation that focuses on research in gender, education, social and economic policies, budgeting, decentralization and governance issues. Trained as an economist, Jyotsna has significant experience of working on development-related issues.

Neha Ghatak is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies where her engagement has primarily been with gender studies and the education sector. She has worked on several projects related to womens empowerment, agency and related issues.

Niveditha Menon is a feminist sociologist by training. She is a Senior Research Advisor at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies. Her primary focus has been in the domain of gender, more specifically, in the areas of domestic and sexual violence, sexuality, and womens empowerment.

Priyanka Dutta is a qualitative sociologist by training, Priyanka has worked at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS) Bangalore from September 2016 to February 2018 primarily on gender-related issues.

Shreekanth Mahendiran is a Research Advisor at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore, India. His research primarily focuses on the applied microeconomics and development economics to examine the questions on access, welfare, and impact assessment. He focuses primarily on the areas related to education, gender, empowerment, and health in the context of the developing world..

Womens Education and Empowerment in Rural India, as its title suggests, is about understanding womens empowerment in rural India.

In this extremely important book, Jyotsna Jha, Neha Ghatak, Niveditha Menon, Priyanka Dutta, and Shreekanth Mahendiran explore the pathways and roadblocks to womens empowerment. They do this through an evaluation-centered research on Mahila Samakhya in Bihar, a Government of India-funded scheme of the Education Department, aimed at providing education for womens equality.

The book evaluates the impact of the scheme and its interventions on the lives of women from the most marginalised communities. It traces the meaning and the process of the various facets of empowerment as well. These include how womens empowerment effect their mobility; savings; participation in economic activities; self-efficacy; decision-making and political participation. The empowerment of women goes beyond these and has an intergenerational impact as well through the choices they are able to make, about their daughters education and marriage; And still beyond these, once empowered, they are able to adjust to and negotiate with regard to the dominant social institutions such as the family, and policy processes and their outcomes.

Womens empowerment raises some searching questions about the developmental implications of womens education, and social policy, planning and implementation.

This book will be of enormous value to government departments, and all university departments teaching social sciences specially those teaching politics, education, sociology and gender studies.

Womens Education and Empowerment in Rural India

Jyotsna Jha, Neha Ghatak, Niveditha Menon, Priyanka Dutta and Shreekanth Mahendiran

First published 2019
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ISBN: 978-0-367-13743-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-02841-0 (ebk)

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T his book is part of a larger study to understand the effect of the Mahila Samakhya programme on the economic empowerment of rural women in India. The study is funded by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, under the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme. The GrOW programme is a multi-funder partnership between the UK Department for International Development and the Hewlett Foundation. We thank all our funders for their continued support and encouragement in the face of unexpected hurdles and difficulties. This book would not have been possible without their faith in our ability to make the best of a dynamic situation.

Our special thanks to the ex- and current administrative teams at Mahila Samakhya (both Karnataka and Bihar) including Sister Sujitha, Pushpa, Cynthia and Amrutha, who went out of their way to help us with this study. Their stories and their experiences immensely added to this study. We would like to thank R.S. Singh who was extremely supportive of our efforts in the field and helped us with his insights to deal with any difficulties we encountered. We would also like to thank Uma Mahadevan who was greatly supportive of our advocacy efforts related to Mahila Samakhya and of our efforts to provide evidence-based research to construct sensible policies for womens empowerment.

This research was part of a collaborative effort of different organisations. We would like to thank Sunai Consultancy who have been enthusiastic, methodical and committed in their endeavour to collect data for us. We benefited greatly from their understanding of the geographical and political landscape of Bihar. We also want to thank IFMR who collaborated with us for our work in Karnataka. The study also greatly benefited from the systematic document review conducted by our partner organisation, Educational Research Unit (ERU). Their clear understanding of the institutional processes as well as their detailed analysis of the documents collected enhanced our understanding of the importance of contextual influences.

We would be remiss if we do not thank our participants MS sangha women, MS sahayoginis and MS administrative staff in all three districts who welcomed us to their homes and into their lives. Their willingness to share their knowledge, insights, and their lives greatly transformed and enriched this study. The lessons learnt from them will be treasured far beyond the boundaries of this study.

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