Abstract
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate women empowerment through social entrepreneurship and to show the scope of social entrepreneurship and NGOs that analysts are presently unaware of, and to inspire those who have not yet studied this field and wish to conduct research on women empowerment through NGOs. In this study, the authors chose a quantitative strategy and used the Scopus database to identify the research areas with the most significant research results; the beginning of the research in the field of women empowerment and NGOs, the source of the research, and the subject area. The focus of this research is on 130 documents published in the field of women empowerment in context with NGOs. The study showed that the bibliometric research on women participation in social entrepreneurship can be systematically carried, and fresh scopes of social entrepreneurship research can be set.
Top1. Introduction
Women contribute to almost half of the world's population. Empowerment of women is an urge need in developing countries like India. Nowadays, women's empowerment is a buzzword on which everyone talks, debate and discuss. The best method to strengthen the family—a micro-unit of the national economy—and its economic, nutritional, and health conditions is through educating and empowering women. In this context, it may be claimed that women's low levels of education may constitute a barrier to the nation's economic growth. Women in India are educated significantly less than males. According to the Census data from 2001, 54.16 percent of women and 65.38 percent of males are literate. According to the results of the 2011 Census, literacy levels are rising nationwide. The country's literacy rate is 74.04%, with 82.14 percent of men and 65.46 percent of women.
Actions to raise women's position via education, awareness, literacy, and training are considered empowerment. Women's empowerment is about encouraging women to overcome a variety of social difficulties and make decisions that will change their lives. The process of empowering women is known as women empowerment. When we talk about women's empowerment, however, we mean embracing and permitting women who are not already involved in decision-making to join in the process. In ancient times, women were not allowed to take the decision or to participate in any such decision-making activity either in the house or outside the house. Women have remained in house like a prisoner in four walls. Then the word women empowerment came, which made society realise that women are equally important as men and, therefore, women’s opinion is also as important as the opinion of men. It made them aware of their rights and the importance of their existence in society. However, there is a long way to go to make our country in which a woman has equal rights, equal powers and equal authority to participate in the decision-making process and step out of the house to gain self-respect and confidence.
There are quite a few gender-related social norms in India that prohibit and limit women's participation in many normal activities in their communities and in the general economy. For example, women have social obligations as daughters, mothers, and caregivers. These obligations and associated societal expectations result in women being left behind, both socially and economically.
Key Terms in this Chapter
NGO: It is an acronym for non-governmental organisations. NGOs rely heavily on volunteers and others to pay their employees. The term “NGO” is often used to denote largely non-profit, private entities that operate independently of the government.
Social Issues: A social problem is a problem or problem that affects a large number of people. They usually reflect current events, but can also symbolize long-standing difficulties or unresolved disputes.
Economic Growth: Economic growth is defined as a rise in the economy's capacity to create more products and services than it did the previous year.
Bibliometric Analysis: By examining all publications related to a particular topic or field, bibliometric analysis is a computer-aided scientific review method that identifies significant authors or studies, and the relationships among them.
Women Empowerment: Empowering women entails ensuring that they have access to all economic, social, and educational rights. It aims to eliminate gender inequity for women in the workplace to provide them equal rights in the workplace, family, society, and community.
Social Entrepreneurship: The process by which people, companies and entrepreneurs create and develop innovations aimed at reducing societal challenges is known as social entrepreneurship. A social entrepreneur is therefore someone who seeks out business opportunities that benefit their community, society or the planet as a whole.
Corporate Sustainability: Corporate sustainability is a way to creating long-term stakeholder value via the implementation of a corporate plan that focuses on the environmental, ethical, cultural, social, and economic components of conducting business.