A Systematic Review on Empowerment of Dalit Women: Trends, Insights, and Gaps

Abstract

Dalits experience widespread mistreatment, discrimination, loss of human dignity, and a persistent type of untouchability. Dalit women are especially vulnerable to these issues. Despite extensive study on violence against Dalit women, there is a paucity of papers that reflect the present scientific output.  In this study, systematic analysis has been used to evaluate the 223 documents from 2000 to 2022 based on WOS databases. These documents were analyzed quantitatively by VOSviewer software. In addition, the top-cited papers were analyzed qualitatively. The research findings show that the United States is a leader in this field with the most highly cited articles and also the most number of publications followed by the India, UK,  Canada, Australia, and South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany . A total of 223 documents were collected from the WOS database and were analyzed in VOSviewer. Keywords analysis indicates that most articles focus on Dalit women empowerment”,  " Dalit women" OR "marginalized women" ) AND ( "untouchable" OR "scheduled caste" OR "socio" OR "economic " OR "discrimination" OR "moderation" OR " meditation" OR "Psychology" OR "Perceived Stigma" OR "Health"  Sources such as the “Contemporary Voice of Dalit”, “Journal of international Women S Studies”, “Journal of family Violence”, “Violence Against of Women”, “Economic and Political Weekly” are the top most productive in this field. Examining the articles showed that the vast majority of women have experienced Discrimination, perceived stigma.