Economic and Fishing Activities of Women in Coastal Villages of Nagapattinam District

Women’s 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 and cultural rigHts. Social scientists and development practitioners have long been interested in the conditions that empower women. In this study an attempt has been made about the involvement of fisher women in their economic development. The study area taken for the study is Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. It is a coastal district having a large coast line of 187 kilometers. The parameters taken for development of fisher women economic status are, fishermen death related benefits, awareness about women self help groups, membership of women self help groups and benefits 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 are presented fewer than three broad heads, such as procurement, sale of fish (wet) and dry fish and sale. Each head is further sub headed according to the info pertaining to type of marketing or domestic level besides the economic are dealt in detail to draw the domestic and entrepreneurial tenacities. Economic and fisher activities of women in coastal villages are analyzed using simple statistical technique.This study is based on the primary datasets and the output maps are prepared by the ArcGIS 10.2 oftwar