Womens Self Help Group Movement And Its Impact On The Status Of Women

In the early decades of planning problems of women were looked upon as problems of social welfare, 

rather than of development. The drawback of the welfare approach was that it did  

nothing to eliminate the social discrimination against and subordination of women. In  

almost all plans for poverty alleviation and social change, disadvantaged women became a 

'target' in developmental activities rather than a group to be co-opted as active participants.1 

Since 1970, policymakers and academicians started thinking as to how development programs  

could be linked to poor women. Women's issues  are  development  issues  and  by-passing  

them in  development programs means  leaving  almost  half  of  human  resources  

outside

development into prevention