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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJAHS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJAHS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJAHS</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJAHS</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-0622</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10069</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Cultural Aspects of Development</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Matriarchs of the Margins: Steering Progress in India's Heartlands</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="88" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Anupriya Saha</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>University of Kalyani</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-12-31"><day>31</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2023</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><elocation-id>V1-I2-2023</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-12-25"><day>25</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2023">2023</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2023-12-26"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2023"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2023-12-26"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2023"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2023 Anupriya Saha Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Anupriya Saha</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJAHS/currentissue/matriarchs-of-the-margins-steering-progress-in-indias-heartlands"/><abstract><p>In&#xD;
societies nestled within the countryside and native environments, it is crucial&#xD;
to bolster the perspective that acknowledges women's equivalent capability to&#xD;
compete with males. It is vital to nurture and provide them with opportunities&#xD;
for advancement. It is necessary to grant women chances in these domains to&#xD;
facilitate the development of their competencies and abilities. Priorities&#xD;
should be established to facilitate access to top-tier education and&#xD;
opportunities for lucrative jobs. Upholding the notion of gender balance in&#xD;
advantages and rights is imperative. Moreover, it is pivotal to eliminate all&#xD;
forms of prejudice.&nbsp;For those&#xD;
residing in rustic and indigenous areas, artisanal crafts and agriculture are&#xD;
the primary sources of income, and women are indispensable to these industries.&#xD;
Consequently, their contributions are crucial to maintaining their societies'&#xD;
practical living standards intact. It is apparent that valuing the expertise&#xD;
and skills of these women and ensuring they have equal access to opportunities&#xD;
and rights is not merely a matter of equality but also of advancing the&#xD;
community. The current study explores women's pivotal role in the progress of&#xD;
rural and tribal communities and cultures, the behaviours these women exhibit&#xD;
in these contexts, and the societal barriers that these women must overcome.&#xD;
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Gender Parity</kwd><kwd> Rural Empowerment</kwd><kwd> Education Access</kwd><kwd> Skill Development</kwd><kwd> Livelihood Enhancement</kwd><kwd> Societal Integration</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>I thank the following individuals for their expertise and assistance in all aspects of our study and for their help in writing the manuscript. I am also grateful for the insightful comments given by anonymous peer reviewers. Everyone's generosity and expertise have improved this study in myriad ways and saved me from many errors.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>None</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
