Women Empowerment in modernism

Dr. Ajay Kumar Garg

Principal I.B.P.G.College, Panipat

Abstract: Empowerment has become a widely used word. Empowerment denotes a process of
acquiring, providing, bestowing the resources and the means or enabling the access to and
control over such means and resources. Women Empowerment refers to complete emancipation
of women from socio-economic shackles of dependency and deprivations. Empowerment of
women would mean encouraging women to be self- reliant, economically independent, have
positive self-esteem, generate confidence to face any difficult situation and incite active
participation in various socio- political development endeavors. The government of India frames
different policies and programmes at different levels cover various proportions and strategies of
gender development. Efforts have been made to empower women but due to lack of
synchronization and coordination, the achievements are not satisfactory. It is fact not only for
unorganized rural women, but also for urban women employee. Women empowerment has
become one of the most concerns of today but practically it is still an illusion of reality. This
concerns deep biases and severe poverty against women create a pitiless cycle of inequity that
keeps them from satisfying their maximum capacity.

Keywords: Shackles, synchronization, Bestowing, Emancipation.