Vol. 5, Issue 7, Part C (2019)

Abstract
This paper focus on women empowerment is one of the challenging opportunities tasks in the present scenario. Majority of women in India as well as Karnataka in both the rural and urban are employed in order to meet the socio¬economic conditions, financial demands for sustainable. Most of them are engaged in agriculture activities, animal husbandry cattle rearing, poultry rearing, piggery rearing, dairy farming, and also fisheries activities and other subsidiary activities. Support to Training and Employment Programmes for Women (STEP) is one of the important programmes of the dairy co-operatives societies in the State. It is provides opportunities of employment and income generation, improvement of socio-economic activities, reduction of poverty, sustainable livelihood to millions of women’s household in rural and semi-urban in India as well as Karnataka. In this direction, present study is an effort to study the performance of STEP for women, and organization and functioning of Women Dairy Co-operative Societies (WDCSs) in Karnataka.