Socio-Cultural Life and Economic Characteristics of Fisher (Women) Kanyakumari Coast, Tamilnadu

This article is an Economic and sher activities of women in Kanyakumari coastal villages are analyzed. Fishing is a major sector in coastal state of Tamilnadu; Fisheries are an important sector of food. Who constitute approximately half of the Kanyakumari population (39%) Fishing Activities in a working woman. Women employment is very often more precarious and less well paid than men’s. There has been seen considerable progress worldwide in advancing women’s economic, social cultural rights. Social scientists development practitioners have long been interested in the conditions that empower women. Study an attempt has been made about the involvement of sheries women in their economic development. The parameters are taken for the development of sher women status are, sher men death-related bene ts, awareness about women self- help groups, membership of women selfhelp groups, and bene ts from self help groups. The early studies, particularly of late Nineteenth century anthropologists had recorded women’s participation in all aspects of social, economic, political and religious aspects as they were but not emphases data were presented fewer than three Broad heads, such as procurement, sale of sh (wet) and dry sh and sale. Each head is further sub head according to the info pertaining the type of marketing or domestic level besides the economic are dealt in detail to draw the domestic and entrepreneurial tenacities. Economic and sher activities of women in coastal villages are analyzed using the simple statistical technique. This study is based on the primary datasets and the output maps are prepared by the ArcGIS 10.2 software