• Dr.Swarooprani.k

Women empowerment and economic growth are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in lashing down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Expansion policies and programs tend not to view women as essential to the economic development process. This is reflected in the higher investments in women's reproductive rather than their productive roles, mainly in population programs. Yet women during the developing world engage in economically productive work and earn incomes. They work primarily in cultivation and in the informal sector and increasingly, in formal wage employment. Their earnings, however, are usually low. Since the 1950s, development agencies have responded to the need for poor women to earn incomes by making rather small investments in income-generating projects. Often such projects fail because they are aggravated by welfare and not development concerns, offering women temporary and part-time employment in traditionally womanly skills such as knitting and sewing that have imperfect markets. By contrast, over the past twenty years, some nongovernmental organizations, such as the Self-Employed Women's union in India, have been effective in humanizing women's economic status because they have started with the premise that women are essential to the procedure of economic development.

Population Programs, informal sector, development agencies, income generating projects, nongovernmental organizations.

"WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND MONETARY ENLARGEMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.a101-a108, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106014.pdf

"WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND MONETARY ENLARGEMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppa101-a108, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106014.pdf