Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages An Impact Study

• Main Authors: Saikia, Udoy, Chalmers, Jim, Michael, Dency, Orrell, Janice
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Cultural & Ethnic Studies; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Empowerment; Gender inequalities; Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Geography; Interdisciplinary studies; JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls; JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory; Marginalised communities; Quality of life; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional geography; Rural; Social education; Social groups, communities and identities; Social justice; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sustainable human development; Wellbeing; Women; Social education; Women; Gender inequalities; Sustainable human development; Wellbeing; Marginalised communities; Social justice; Quality of life; Empowerment
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003519409
• ISBN: 9781032856834; 1032856831; 9781032856827; 1032856823; 104017583X; 1040175791; 9781040175835; 1003519407; 9781003519409; 9781040175798

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.