Literacy Programs for the Socioeconomic Empowerment of Women Involved in Coopératives : A Field Study of a Female Members from the Casablanca Region (Morocco) as a model.

Abstract

The cooperative, being an enterprise that combines and integrates the efforts of various actors and beneficiaries, guarantees an income for its members, improves their social status, and ensures their economic and social integration as well as that of their family members. Therefore, all the must be taken into account when designing the prospects of the cooperative sector. In fact, the latter needs more care and investment in human capital to enable it to acquire the needed mechanisms to integrate the poor and vulnerable groups, especially in the region of Casablanca, the largest region in terms of population. This sector also needs projects that aim at bringing about local development through the support of associative actions and alternative forms to the formal economy, which can only be achieved through female empowerment. However, females are still trying to find their position and establish their social status in Morocco, whose society has not yet abandoned its forms of male domination in various sectors. Additionally, local development should focus its efforts on human beings and not the natural environment, as humans are the main lever for every development act, and perhaps the actual constraint that faces accelerating the pace of development in the Arab countries is the illiteracy that our societies suffer from