Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages

An Impact Study

Udoy Saikia, Jim Chalmers, Dency Michael, Janice Orrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032856827
• eBook ISBN: 9781040175835
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Saikia, Chalmers, Michael and Orrell explore the impact of social education on gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where highland women's lives are damaged by discrimination, marginalisation and deprivation. Social education refers to agent-oriented learning experiences focused on power relations designed to help oppressed people regain their humanity in the struggle for empowerment.

The book begins with the recognition that wellbeing is dependent on access to opportunities given that gender parity in tertiary education has not transferred to good jobs. This implies education is a necessary but insufficient indicator of wellbeing in the absence of empowerment. Hence, it investigates interconnections between empowerment (self-efficacy, social action and human rights) and multiple dimensions of wellbeing (living standards/ livelihoods, physical and mental health, and education). It articulates how such hopes and expectations are empirically founded, thereby presenting some of the answers that readers need to move from grievance to a future that is more conducive to friendships and mutuality.

A vital resource for scholars, students, researchers and professionals interested in development studies, human rights (law and social science), anthropology of development, gender in development, public health administration, governance/ public administration, and welfare economics.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• Synopsis of the research
• 1 Scope of an investigation in India of marginalised women’s struggle for equality
• 2 Rationale for including inequality in women’s wellbeing approaches
• 3 Research sites, women, and concepts involved in a study of the struggle for equality in rural India
• 4 Research processes involved in a wellbeing inquiry of rural women’s struggle for equality in India
• 5 Outcomes of a quality-of-life study of marginalised women’s struggle for equality in India
• 6 What the indices reveal in a study of marginalised women’s struggle for equality in India
• 7 Prologue of an investigation of marginalised women’s struggle for equality in India
• Appendices
• Index