WOMEN

EMPOWERMENT

Dr. Kailash Nagar

Asst. Professor
Dept.
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INTRODUCTION :

Women Empowerment refers to
increasing the spiritual, political, social,
educational, gender, or economic strength
of individuals and communities of
women.

Women’s empowermen in India is heavily

dependent on many different variables
that include geographical location
(urban/rural), educational status, social
status (caste and class),
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CRIMES AGAINST
WOMEN
1. Domestic violence

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• Acid Throwing

• Dowry

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• Female infanticide and sex-selective
abortion

• Rape

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• Sexual harassment

• Trafficking

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• Justice system

Other concerns
• Social opinions

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• Family planning

• Sex ratios

• Sanitation
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 Place of women in Indian
society:
A (cultural) historical
perspective
• The Goddess (Devi)
• The mother
• The sister
• The wife
• the friend
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Empowerment is probably the totality
of the following or similar capabilities:

•decision-making power of their own.

•access to information and resources for
taking proper decision.

•Having a range of options /choices

•assertiveness in collective decision
making.
•positive thinking on the ability to make
change
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• Ability to learn skills.
• Ability to change others’
perceptions by democratic
means.
• Involving in the growth process
and changes that is never ending
and self-initiated
• Increasing one’s positive self-
image and overcoming stigma

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 Indian Women in Modern
Times
Education
• Literacy
• Gender gaps:
• Differences across states Female Male
(Kerala has highest female
literacy; Rajasthan, Bihar and 1971 22% 46%
Uttar Pradesh have the lowest).
• Differences between rural and
urban areas. 1991 39% 64%
• Parental preference for boys
going to school. 2003 48% 70%
• Higher dropout rate among
girls. 2011 65% 83%
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Indian Women in Modern
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Education
– Gender gaps in higher education
• About 10 percent of total women
population has college education
• Women account for a third of the students
at college/university level
• In engineering and business, the proportion
of female students is much smaller
• In education, nearly half of the students are
women
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Indian Women in Modern
Times
Barriers to Female Education
– Poverty: one-fourth of India’s population
lives below the poverty line (2011)
– Social values and parental preferences
– Inadequate school facilities
– Shortage of female teachers: 29 percent at the
primary level and 22 percent at the university
level
– Gender bias in curriculum
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Indian Women in Modern
Times
Employment
– Difficult to get an overall picture of employment among
women in India
• Most women work in the informal sector
– Women accounted for only 23 percent of the total
workers in the formal sector in 2011.

– The number of female workers has increased faster than

the number of male workers.

– Female unemployment rates are similar to male

unemployment rates.

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Indian Women in Modern
Times
Categories of employment (2011)
Female Male
Agricultural laborer 46.3% 23.0%
Cultivator 34.6% 39.9%
Household industry 3.5% 2.1%
Non-household 3.8% 8.8%
industry
Services 8.3% 10.8%
Other categories 3.5%
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ANCIENT INDIA:-
Scolars believe that in ancient
India, the women enjoyed equal
status with men in all the fields
of life. How ever ,some others
hold contrasting views.
Rig-Veda verses suggested that
women were educated and
married at a mature age and
were probably free to select
theirFreehusband.
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However ,later (approximately
500B.C) the status of women began
to decline.
Although reformatory movements
such as Jainism allowed women to
be admitted to the religious order,
by and large the women in India
faced confinement and restrictions.
The practice of child marriages is
believed to have started from
around sixth century.
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INDEPENDENT INDIA:-
• Women in India now participate in
all activities such as education,
politics,media,art and culture,
service sector, science and
technology etc.
• The constitution of India
guarantees to all Indian women
equality, No discrimination by the
state, equality of opportunity,
Equal pay for equal work.
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 In addition,it allows special
provisions to be made by the state in
favor of women and children, and
also allows for provitions to be made
by the state for securing just and
humane conditions of work and for
maternity relief.
 Government of India declared 2001
as the Year of Women’s
Empowerment. The national policy
for the Empowerment of Women was
passed in 2001.
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NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMNENT:

WOMEN ARE DEPRIVED OF:

• Decision Making Power

• Freedom of Movement
• Access to Education
• Access to Employment
• Exposure to Media
• Domestic Violence
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NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE
EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
• GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:-
The goal of this policy is to
bring about the advancement
development and empowerment
of women.

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THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS
POLICY INCLUDES:-
1.Cerating an environment through
positive economic and social policies
for full development of women to
enable them to realize their full
potential.
2.The enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedom by women on
equal basis with men in all spheres
political, economic, social, cultural and
civil.
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3.Equal access to participation and
decision making of women in
social, political and economic life
of the nation
4.Equal access to women to health
care, quality education at all levels,
career and vacational guidence,
employment equal remuneration,
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• 5.Strengthening legal systems
aimed at elimination of all forms
of discrimination against
women.

• 6.Changing societal attitude and

community practices by active
participation and involvement of
both men and women.
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7.Elimination of discrimination
and all forms of violence
against women and the girl
child.

8.Building and strengthening

partnership with civil society,
particularly women’s
organizations.
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Women empowerment
STRATEGIES

1. United Nations Development

programme

millennium
development goals
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GOAL-1 & 2

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GOAL-3 & 4

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GOAL-5 & 6

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GOAL-7& 8

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 GOAL-3
PROMOTE GENTER EQUQLITY AND
EMPOWER WOMEN
. INDICATORS
• Target 3a: Eliminate gender disparity in
primary and secondary education
preferably by 2005, and at all levels by
2015
• 3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary,
secondary and tertiary education
• 3.2 Share of women in wage employment in
the non-agricultural sector
• 3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in
national parliament
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2.The Ninth Five Year Plan

commits to `Empower Women' through

creating an
enabling environment where women can freely
exercise their rights both within and
outside their homes, as equal partners along with
men. This is planned to be realised
through ‘The National Policy for Empowerment
of Women’, with definite goals, targets
and policy prescriptions along with a well-
defined Gender Development Index to monitor
the impact of its implementation in raising the
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3. United Nations 1995 Fourth World
Conference on Women held in
Beijing with 20,000 participants. It
focused on rights of women to
acquire –

• Education

• Economic Power

• Inclusion in leadership

• Involvement in decision
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• The nodal Department of Women and
Child Development, responsible for
empowering women, formulates policies
and programmes; enacts/amends
legislation concerning women; and
reviews, guides and coordinates efforts
of governmental and
non-governmental organizations. In
addition, the Department implements a
few innovative programmes, which
include :-
i) empowering strategies;
ii) employment and income generation;
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; iii) welfare and support services;
iv) awareness generation and
gender
sensitization; and
v) other enabling measures.

These programmes are

supplementary/complementary to
other general developmental efforts
for women.
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WAYS TO EMPOWER WOMEN:

• Changes in women's mobility and

social interaction;
• Changes in women's labour
patterns;
• Changes in women's access to and
control over resources; and
• Changes in women's control over
decision-making.
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SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT :

• Political empowerment of women

is only a part of the overall
mainstreaming of women.
• Education of women means greater
awareness of their role in society.
• Awareness of their rights, better
knowledge of housekeeping and
better performance of their roles as
a housewife and mother.
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• Education and training have opened
up the avenues of employment and
self-employment in the organized
sector. As never before women are
working in diverse fields as doctors,
engineers, IAS officers, IPS
officers, bank officials and in a wide
range of sectors in the unorganized
sector. In agriculture, most of the
operations are run by women.
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ROLE OF NGO’s :

• Non-governmental organizations are

playing a significant role in the
empowerment of disadvantages women.
Just a few years after Independence, the
Government set up the Central Social
Welfare Board, an apex body of the
voluntary sector that aids more than
10,000 NGOs across the country, helping
women stand on their own through such
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ROLE OF GOVERNMENT :

•  The Department of Women and Child

Development has been implementing
special programmes for the holistic
development and empowerment of women
with major focus to improve their socio-
economic status. There has been policy
shifts from time to time based on the shifts
in emphasis.
• The year 2001 was declared as “Women’s
Empowerment Year” to bring greater
focus on the programmes for women.
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• A programme of Support to Training-cum-
Employment for Women (STEP) was
launched in 1987 to strengthen and improve
the skills for employment opportunities for
women below the poverty line, in traditional
sectors of agriculture, small animal
husbandry etc where women are employed
on a large scale..
• Swayamsidha launched in March 2001 and
the Swa-Shakti Project (earlier known as
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 EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
• Economic Empowerment of women
• Poverty Eradication
by offering them a range of economic
and social options, along with
necessary support measures to
enhance their capabilities.

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• Micro Credit

strengthening of existing micro-

credit mechanisms and micro-
finance institution will be
undertaken so that the outreach of
credit is enhanced
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• Women and Economy
Their contribution to socio-economic
development as producers and workers
will be recognized in the formal and
informal sectors (including home based
workers) and appropriate policies
relating to employment and to her
working conditions should be drawn up.

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• Globalization
Benefits of the growing global economy
have been unevenly distributed
leading to wider economic disparities,
the feminization of poverty, increased
gender inequality through often
deteriorating working conditions and
unsafe working environment.

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• Women and Agriculture
Concentrated efforts should be made to ensure
that benefits of training, extension and various
programmes will reach them in proportion to
their numbers.

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• Women and Industry
comprehensive support in terms of labour
legislation, social security and other
support services to participate in
various industrial sectors.

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Support Services
child care facilities, including creches at
work places and educational institutions,
homes for the aged and the disabled

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 social empowerment of
women
• Education for women

Equal access to education as men and

boys

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• Healthcare for women

• Participation of women in development

of science and technology

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• Nutrition of women

• Drinking Water and

• Sanitation

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• Housing and Shelter

• Environment

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Political empowerment

• Recognizing that education and training

• To acknowledge and accept the glaring
gender based bias
• Empowering women by increasing awareness
regarding the rights of an employee.
• Work on the communication skills of women
• Encouraging and supporting women
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Cultural Empowerment of
Women
• There should be a change in the mind
set of society on a fundamental level.
Cultural empowerment as such can
be achieved only when women are
treated as human beings first and
foremost

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 Women in difficulties
• Fighting against violence and
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ADVANTAGES OF WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
• next generation will be empowered
because of her.
• if woman will be empowered she will not
be a burden on anyone.
• financial burden of man can be shared
with her support.
• family can be more strong because of
both working hands.
• when financial problems will be shared
than results of conflict.
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 RIGHTS OF WOMEN
• the right to work as a human being.
• The right to the same employment
opportunities, including application of
the same criteria for selection.

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• The right to free choice of profession
and employment, the right to
promotion, job security and all
benefits and conditions of service
and right to receive vocational
training and retraining.
• The right to equal remuneration.
• The right of social security as well
as the right to paid leave.
• The right to protection of health and
to safety.
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CONCLUSION :

Women represent half the world’s

population, and gender inequality
exists in every nation on the planet.
Until women are given the same
opportunities that men are, entire
societies will be destined to perform
below their true potentials .The
greatest need of the hour is change of
social attitude to women.

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• The origin of a child is a
mother, a woman. ….she
shows a man what sharing,
caring, and loving is all
about. That is the essence
of a woman."

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THANK YOU

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