findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …

the research questions such as, what is the participation level of married women in SHG activities? Does the SHG … association of the members contribute to the Socioeconomic Development? The researcher selected a sample of 115 women group … members on the basis of simple random sampling. The major conclusion of the study is that women groups are successful in …