A Context-Specific Community Practice Model of Women's Empowerment

This article will demonstrate the need for a context-specific model of community practice that aims to empower impoverished rural women and simultaneously improve their living conditions. The two main empowerment-based models of community practice currently prevalent in rural India and their ideological differences are highlighted. A unique case of community planning and mobilization that resulted in incremental yet significant changes in the socioeconomic milieu of a rural Indian community and initiated a re-evaluation of traditional gender roles is illustrated. Recommendations for community practitioners and leaders working with women in under-developed and economically deprived communities are offered to facilitate successful program implementation

Community development · Community mobilization · Community organization · Community organizing · Community practice · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Empowerment · Geography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Population · Public relations · Rural community · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Religion, Society, and Development

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