Doctoral Dissertation: Evaluation of a Women's Development Program in India

9815195 Gupta/Sharma这个项目资助了斯坦福大学人类学专业的一名学生的论文研究，他学习的是印度通过赋权促进农村妇女发展的国家计划。学生将结合文献分析和民族志方法，如参与者观察、访谈和调查，评估政府对“发展”、“赋权”和“现代性”的概念化对贫困农村妇女生活的有意和无意影响。这项研究的地点是北方邦，在那里，一个性别与发展项目因其灵活的方法、组织和模范目标而受到称赞，因为它寻求赋予女性发展自我的能力。这项研究的设计是对两个匹配的村庄进行对照比较，在尽可能多的方面相似，除了一个村庄的项目正在运行，另一个村庄的项目没有。这名学生将采访官员，了解他们的目标、做法和战略，并将就背景变量、人际关系和对生活的渴望对两个村庄的女性进行调查。将通过六个领域分析赋权的概念：政治参与、法律决策、家庭和社区活动、对经济资源的控制、获取公共资源和集体组织。这一案例研究将有助于我们理解以赋予妇女权力为重点的新的经济发展方法，并有助于培训一名年轻的社会科学家，增进我们对世界这一重要区域的了解。

9815195Gupta / Sharma This project funds the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Stanford University, studying an Indian national program of rural women's development through empowerment. Using a combination of documentary analysis and ethnographic methods such as participant observation, interviews as well as surveys, the student will evaluate the intended as well as the unintended effects of the government's conceptualization of "development", "empowerment" and "modernity" on the lives of poor, rural women. The site of the study is the state of Uttar Pradesh, where a Gender and Development program has been praised for its flexible approach, organization and exemplary goals because it seeks to empower women to develop themselves. The design of the study is a controlled comparison of two matched villages similar in as many respects as possible except that in one the program is operating and in the other it is not. The student will interview officials to understand their goals, practices and strategy and will survey women in both villages about background variables, relationships and desires for their lives. The concept of empowerment will be analyzed through six domains, political participation, legal decision making, household and community activity, control over economic resources, access to public resources, and collective organizing. This case study will provide a valuable advance in our understanding of the new approach to economic development which focuses on empowering women, as well as contribute to the training of a young social scientist and advance our understanding of this important region of the world.