Determining resource ownership, accessibility and control by rural women beneficiaries of CSR initiatives

Empowerment is now increasingly seen as a process by which the one's without power gain greater control over their lives. This means control over material assets, intellectual resources and ideology. The questions surrounding women's empowerment, the condition and position of women have now become critical to the human rights based approaches to development. Thus the present study aims to determine and assess the ownership of assets, access to resources, control over resources were assessed of both beneficiaries and non beneficiaries, to see how much economically empowered are the rural women beneficiaries of these CSR the initiatives are in comparison to the non beneficiaries.