Women's Consumer Education Project Through Cooperatives in Sri Lanka

Abstract

The United Nations declared the year 1975 as the, International Women’s year. This helped to focus world attention on women-their position and prob lems in society,their hopes and aspirations and the various factors that impeded their playing an active role in the process of development. The various cooperative movements in several countries had also begun to give increasing attention to the role of women in cooperatives. Many field surveys in regard to the position of women in cooperatives in several Asian countries were conducted by the ICA Regional Office with the assistance of the SCC and the Consumer Guilds in Sweden.There was growing enthusiasm among cooperators and more so among women, to find ways and means of motivating women towards greater participation in cooperative and allied activities.