Women Empowerment through Self Help Groups: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

‘Women Empowerment’ has been regarded as an inevitable component of development. The Self Help Groups (SHGs) approach was implemented to promote savings and create social cohesiveness among women to empower them in a collective manner, especially for the rural poor. The article conducted a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to identify significant contributors, existing refinements, fields, and advocates for different directions in the study area of SHGs and women's empowerment and to ascertain the domain knowledge on developments connected to women empowerment and SHGs. The Scopus database was used to search the global literature on self-help groups and Women Empowerment. As per the findings, this field is still growing globally, both in developed and developing nations. It found significant links between SHGs and socio-economic empowerment, gender equality, and health promotion. It also shows that SHGs have been utilized as a medium at the local, national, and worldwide levels to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment in various countries.