Corporate Social Responsibility and Women Empowerment- A Study of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

Corporate social responsibility plays a vital role in the development of society. In India, the study found significant contributions by both the corporate sector and the government to create a more sustainable society. Women’s empowerment is a part of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), wherein the objective is to provide support to women in their quest for equality in the family and society through training, suggestions and financial support. Formation of SHG (Self-Help Groups) is a medium to reach to women and help them to work under various functions. The study examine the women empowerment through CSR in terms of economic, social, political and others form of empowerment. The study utilizes both primary and secondary data. The first question is addressed using secondary data and questions two and three with primary data. We have collected total 200 data from married rural women living at different blocks in North 24 Parganas of West Bengal. Purposive sampling techniques wasused for the study and have considered those who are the members of SHG. The findings establish that corporate social reasonability plays a major role to train women, update them, skill them and because of which women successfully attain their empowerment objectives having economic, social, political and other dimensions. The factor analysis highlighted that rural women now become a major contributors in terms of income, expenditure and decision-making process. This paper will also help the corporate sector and government to design their CSR program in a better and efficient way and will help to target more groups of women.