Women Leadership and Development: A Study on Grassroots Women Leaders in Uttarakhand
Published: 2017
Author(s) Name: Nivedita Mishra Thapliyal |
Author(s) Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
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Abstract
Women leadership influences holistic development, this
proposition is substantiated with several studies. The socio-cultural
background of the women potentially influences this process. The
socio-economic characteristics of grassroots women leaders,
their awareness level, perspective of development, work and
initiatives undertaken by the women leaders in their respective
areas and their contribution on development is getting more
attention in recent years. This study discusses the background
of formal and informal women leaders, their socio-demographic
background which influences the process of development. The
study further discusses the perspective of the women leaders
towards development of their village/block/district, the awareness
level about the various development programmes/schemes, nature
of work initiated by the women leaders in their respective areas,
problems and constraint faced by the women leaders in performing
their role in development domain. And finally the opinion of the
public regarding the development work had done by women
leaders. The study is descriptive in nature and interview and FGD
were the tools for data collection.
Keywords: Grassroots Women Leaders and Development
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