• D.MAHESWARI

Present paper aims to draw the attention and emphasize the important role of women in economic development of India. Development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may promote development. Development policies and programs tend not to view women as integral 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 throughout the developing world engage in economically productive work and earn incomes. They work primarily in agriculture and in the informal sector and increasingly, in formal wage employment. Their earnings, however, are generally low. Since the 1950s, development agencies have responded to the need for poor women to earn incomes by making relatively small investments in income-generating projects. Often such projects fail because they are motivated by welfare and not development concerns, offering women temporary and part-time employment in traditionally feminine skills such as knitting and sewing that have limited markets. By contrast, over the past twenty years, some non-governmental organizations, such as the Self-help groups in India, have been effective in improving women's economic status by extending loan facilities that are fundamental to the process of economic development. What are the current constraints on realising the full potential of women in the process of economic development intervention necessary to unblock these constraints? It is focussed on women and on economic development, rather than on the wider issue of discrimination between genders. However, before looking at the evidence base, constraints, and interventions, it will provide a scenario of thinking around women and development in our country.

PROGRESSIVE ROLE OF WOMEN IN INDIAN ECONOMY

"PROGRESSIVE ROLE OF WOMEN IN INDIAN ECONOMY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.84-89, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBN06022.pdf

"PROGRESSIVE ROLE OF WOMEN IN INDIAN ECONOMY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp84-89, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBN06022.pdf