Microfinance and Women Empowerment: A Case Study of Chitral Region

Abstract

Microfinance has come to play a big part in many gender and growth techniques because of its immediate connection to both hardship relief and to the power of females. Females are the significant components of our community and their position and contribution in making decisions as well as economic actions is very low. Microfinance performs part in female’s empowerment. In this study an effort has been made to find out different factors of women empowerment i.e. economic empowerment and social empowerment. This research examine the connection among different socio and financial aspect on women empowerment in which microfinance is an essential factor. Empowerment of women has been sub categorized as economic empowerment and social empowerment.