DMI-ST JOHN THE BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

1. PROGRAMME Bachelors of Social Work

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2. PRESENTED TO Senate
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3. PRESENTED BY School of Social Work
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4. SUBJECT Women’s Empowerment
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5. YEAR/LEVEL OF STUDY Four
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6. MODULE TITLE Women’s Empowerment
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7. COURSE CODE 252EE004
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8. DURATION Semester
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9. LECTURES HOURS PER 3
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10. TUTORIAL HOURS PER 1
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11. PRACTICAL HOURS PER -
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12. STUDENT INDEPENDENT 2
LEARNING HOURS PER
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13. TOTAL MODULE CREDITS 9
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14. PREREQUISITE MODULES None
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15 CORE-REQUISITE
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16. DELIVERY METHODS
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16.1 Mode of Delivery Face to Face, Online
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16.2 Teaching Lecturers, Seminars, Group discussions
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16.3 Assessment weighting : Continuous Assessment 40%
End of Semester Examinations 60%
17 AIM(S) OF THE COURSE
The course aims to provide a historical and concise outlook to the study of women in
empowering and achieving the full potential and total development of women.
18 LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course students will be able to:
 To understand the situation of women in Malawi and to understand
dimensions of women empowerment;
 To understand the relevance of women empowerment in the process of
sustainable development.

19 TOPICS OF STUDY
Unit I
Status of women in Malawi: historical perspective (during Medieval period and pre-
independent Malawi) status of women in independent Malawi. Women empowerment:
Meaning, Definition, need for social work services.

Unit II
Gender issues and evidence of gender discrimination-Key indicators: sex ratio, infant
mortality rates, age at marriage, literacy rate: enrolment and dropout rates in schools,
education of women at different levels. Employment: organized and unorganized
sectors, gender index, improved self-esteem of girls and women.
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Unit III
Female feticide and infanticide - Declining sex ratio - Rape and sexual abuse - Dowry
and domestic violence - Female infant mortality, girl child mortality and maternal
mortality - Women, politics and representation

Unit IV
Legal enactments under the British rule, constitutional Safeguards for protective
clauses for women. Current legal position regarding marriage, dowary, divorce,
problem of violence against women outside home and inside home, Legal provisions:
equal remuneration, equal opportunity, women and property right.

Unit V
Welfare programmes for women, centre and state level-hostel for working women,
employment and income generation programme. Department of women and child
development: Women training centres, institutions for rehabilitation of women and
girls Programmes. Women related rural development programmes. Micro credit and
women Self Help Groups.

20 PRESCRIBED TEXTS
1. Bandarage, Asoka, 2007, Women, Population and Global Crisis A Political
Economic analysis, Zed Books, London.
2. Bhaskara Rao, Digumarti, and Pushpins Latha, Digumarti, 2008, International
Encyclopaedia of Women, Discovery Publishing House, Vol.I to V, New Delhi.
3. Cameron, Janet, 2010, The Competitive Women, Mercury Books, London.
4. Narayan S, 2008, Rural Development through Women Programme, Inter-India
 Publications, New Delhi.

21 RECOMMENDED TEXTS/READINGS
1. Pandit S.K, 2008, Women in Society, Rajat Publications, Delhi.
2. Lawer’s Collective Women’s Rights Initiative, 2000, Domestic Violence and
Law, Report of Justice for Women Empowerment through Law, Butterworth’s,
India, New Delhi.
3. Lebra, Joyce, Paulsor, Joy and Everett, Jana, 2004, Women and Work in India,
Continuity and Change, Promilla and Co. New Delhi.