K.Anbumani
I am a professor from Lucknow, teaching management to MBA students. Presently I am planning to conduct a research on ‘women empowerment through cooperatives’.
I want your help in identifying the major parameters on which I could assess women empowerment.
For example, I thought that I can estimate the economic empowerment of women members by measuring the extent of ST/MT/LT accessed by them in cooperatives for their various economic activities.
Similarly I also thought that I can estimate their political empowerment by measuring the extent of their participation in the board / board meetings, etc.
I would be grateful if you could help me to think about some other related points by which I can measure the ‘women empowerment’ through cooperatives.
Please also let me apart from economic and political empowerment can I think about some other direction also?
I C Naik
Though it was clarified that professional like you should be helping cooperators through this eminent portal on cooperative movement, your inquiry is interesting; please do share your findings here.
Suggestion:
This research requires a huge data collection few samples are as under:
1. NUMBERS OF COOPERATIVE SOCIETY UNDER EACH Classification of cooperative society Statewise
2. Number of years in operation of each cooperative society
3. Number of members of each cooperative society
4. Number of women members (1st Name) in each cooperative society
5. Number of women members (Associates) in each cooperative society
6. Number of woman office bearers in each cooperative society
7. Last three years volume of economic activities in each cooperative society
8. Economic activity by total women members in each cooperative society