Problems And Prospects of Women Empowerment: A Data Based Analysis (original) (raw)

Women Empowerment in India: Social and Economic Upliftment

2018

The empowerment of women has become of the most important concerns of 21 st century. Because the Word Empowerment of women is still an illusion. In the real scenario, there is picture which is still contradictory. Women play an important role in the family and society, but they were discriminated in all essential areas of life, whether in terms of education, income, partner choice, inheritance laws, property rights, decision-making process, community organization or access to leadership positions in education, business or politics. The need of empowerment of women thus arises from this harsh social scenario. And hence women empowerment has become a major task now-a-days. Empowerment is a process of awareness and capacity building leading to greater participation, to greater decision-making power and control and transformative action. Women Empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as ...

Women Empowerment Issues, Challenges and Strategies in India

Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women's ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. The study is based on purely from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. The study concludes by an observation that access to Education, Employment and Change in Social Structure are only the enabling factors to Women Empowerment.

Concept and Types of Women Empowerment

International Forum of Teaching and Studies, 2013

Global empowerment of women is a new concept. Since the second half of the twentieth century, the issue of women's empowerment has gained importance among scholars of universities, and in national and international platforms. But the concept was not deeply ingrained into the governments' policies and programs until the declaration of the 'Women's Decade' in 1975. Though the Indian Government endowed franchise to all its citizens irrespective of caste, creed, sex, and color immediately after Independence, it was confined mainly in papers while the majority of women were essentially powerless until the last decade of previous century. Considering their low socioeconomic position, scholars, bureaucrats, and governments have begun to pay considerable attention in empowering women. Because of India's feudal society, the pace of advancement of women remains tardy. This article addresses the challenges and realities of this situation. It calls for government, political decision makers, NGOs, and other actors to come forward to ensure women's all round development for making India a developed country.

Women Empowerment in India WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA

The present paper is an attempt to analyze the status of women empowerment in India using various indicators based on data from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by government. Gender gap exists regarding access to education and employment. Household decision making power and freedom of movement of women vary considerably with their age, education and employment status. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. More than half of the women believe wife beating to be justified for one reason or the other. Fewer women have final say on how to spend their earnings. Control over cash earnings increases with age, education and with place of residence. Women's exposure to media is also less relative to men. Rural women are more prone to domestic violence than that of urban women. A large gender gap exists in political participation too. The study concludes by an observation that access to education and employment are only the enabling factors to empowerment, achievement towards the goal, however, depends largely on the attitude of the people towards gender equality.  Barkat, A. (2008): "Women Empowerment: A Key to Human Development., http://www.goodgovernance.org visited on 20 th April 2008 at 4.30p.m.

Status of Women Empowerment and Gender Equality in India- Challenges & Issues

Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, 2021

Empowering women is a debatable subject. It was the strong urge of Indian constitution and national leaders just after Independence that women should enjoy equal status with men in society. Although today, in all walks of the fields, we have seen women holding respectable roles. Yet, some prejudice and violence against women’ in society has not been fully abolished. Number of women are very less who have been able to determine their ability. Gender inequalities and prejudice are still observed today in India. A century ago, Mahatma Gandhi pioneered in this sector, paving the path for women's emancipation and advancement. An attempt has been made in the article to analyze status of women’s & gender equality in India. It is believed that women have equal rights to participate in the activities and has identical freedom than male in today society. Keywords: Gender equality, Women empowerment etc.

Issues of Women Empowerment in India

2018

This paper attempts to analyze the status of Women Empowerment in India and highlights the Issues and Challenges of Women Empowerment. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women’s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. The study is based on purely from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India woare relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. The study concludes by an observation that access to Education, Employment and Change in Social Structure are only the enabling factors to Women Empowerment.

Women Empowerment in India: An Analysis

International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, 2021

Women empowerment is one of the important concepts in the present scenario. Empowerment of women leads to the socioeconomic development of the society and bringing women into the mainstream. It makes improvement of women in social, economic and political empowerment, which leads to women in equal participation in politics and decision-making process and makes active participation of women in all levels of development. It involves power to, power with and power within. It guides women into capacity building and leading to greater participation, effective decisionmaking power and control leading to transformative action. The Central and State Government has launched various schemes for the growth and development of women status. The present study is an attempt to examine the conceptual meaning of women empowerment and various Government Schemes initiated by the government of India for upliftment of women. Index Terms-The conceptual meaning, ways of women empowerment and Government Schemes for upliftment of women empowerment in India.

A study on issues and challenges of women empowerment in India

International journal of applied research, 2017

Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women’s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. The study is based on purely from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. The study concludes by an observation that access to Education, Employ...

A REPORT ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA INTRODUCTION AND TYPES OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

This report attempts to analyze the status of Women Empowerment in India and highlights the Issues and Challenges of Women Empowerment. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women's ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. The study is based on purely from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. The study concludes by an observation that access to Education, Employment and Change in Social Structure are only the enabling factors to Women Empowerment.