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THE ROLE OF CO-OPERATIVES INPROMOTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN: A STUDY OF RUKIRIRI, EMBU COUNTY
ABSTRACT.
In developing countries, among the poor, rural women are the poorest and more vulnerable. Cooperatives can be used as breeding grounds for socio-economic empowerment of women. To this light, the major concern of this study was to analyze and assess the role of cooperatives in promoting socio-economic empowerment of women. To achieve this purpose the study was guided by the following specific objectives to assess benefits of corporative societies on performance of women enterprises. To identify challenges of facing women corporative societies, to examine the strategies that can be taken to improve women status through corporative …show more content…

1.1 Background of the study
Promoting women’s empowerment is essential because in most cases women are responsible for their children and for their family, thus empowering women is empowering the society in large (world bank, 2001 ).The global statistics show that Women are in charge of 60-80 percent of the world’s work, and produce 50 percent of the food. Despite the fact that their contribution is significant, they have limited economic advantage and access to productive resources (Lawless 2009).
History has shown a number of approaches to development have been employed to solve the socioeconomic ills of the third world. However, these approaches failed to achieve their goals partly because they completely ignored women and their contribution to the efforts of development (Easter, 1999). Throughout history and in many societies, inequalities of women and men were part and parcel of an accepted male-dominated culture. One of the basic factors causing unequal share of women in development relates to the division of labor between the sexes (Prakash, 2002).
Cooperatives can be used as breeding grounds to empower women by enhancing their …show more content…

Thus, women empowerment has three dimensions. Social dimension signifies respectable and non-discriminatory positioning in the society. Political dimension signifies involvement in the governance of organization and administrative positions, and economic empowerment is enabling women members to have equal in employment, spending, ownership of production means and sharing benefits. Co-operative Societies contribute to poverty reduction among members. In Kenya, women are victims of poverty, a vice that is rampant all over the country. Women have not been able to benefit from the Co-operative Societies which play an important role. In savings and credit co-operatives, it is usually difficult to accurately determine the access of women to loan facilities due to inability to provide collateral. Women continue to face obstacles such as decision making powers, deterioration in women health and social welfare. Women always perform most domestic tasks, and others do farming as well as

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