Women Empowerment -A Reality or Myth (original) (raw)

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AT PRESENT IN INDIA

isara solutions, 2016

With the annual budget every year announcing a slew of measures for women upliftment, with the various ministries launching schemes, programs for women empowerment and the widespread use of the term women empowerment in print and social media, it becomes imperative to understand the concept of empowerment of women.

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 in India - A Dream Yet To Be Fulfilled

Women empowerment has become such a topic which has very frequently been used in the discussions not only among the intellectuals but also among the commoners. Women empowerment means to let women live their own life in a way they think appropriate on the basis of their conditions, family circumstances, qualities and capabilities of which they themselves are the best judges. On the other hand, equal status, opportunity and freedom to develop themselves and to ensure their participation in the process of decision making in all spheres including political, economic and social processes. It is moving from the position enforced powerlessness to one of power. Educational attainment and economic participation are the key factors in ensuring the improvement of women. Frankly speaking the concept of women empowerment is very complex in itself indeed very fuzzy also specially in the Indian context. In India we need to do a lot to achieve this in the reality. Present paper is an attempt to throw some light on it from various perspectives.

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.

Opportunities and Challenges of Women Empowerment in India

2018

The concept of empowerment flows from power; it is vesting where it does not exist or exist inadequately. Empowerment of women would mean equipping women to be economically independent, self-reliant, have positive esteem to enable them to face any difficult situation and to be able to participate in development activities. The empowered women should be able to participate in the process of decision making. This is a conceptual paper which highlights the concept of women empowerment, types of women empowerment, need for women empowerment, women empowerment in India, its historical background, constitution of India and women empowerment, specific laws for women empowerment in India, government policies and schemes for women empowerment, change in the position of women, characteristics of women empowerment, promotional schemes for women in India, impact on women empowerment and challenges of women empowerment.

Women Empowerment: A Challenge of 21¬st¬ Century

Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2017

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 Abstract 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 dis-empowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that accept...

THE OVERVIEW OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2020

.The aim of the study is to determine the factors affecting women empowerment and the issues faced by them. The paper also reveals the status of women empowerment in India and how factors are affecting the current status of women in India. The chosen factors for this research are status, health, access to education opportunities, exposure to media, decision making power social, freedom of movement, economic and legal rights as men, adopted from past literatures and various reports. The urge for equality on the part of Indian women started getting momentum during the colonial times. Empowering women means one family is moving forward with that one village moves and the nation moves simultaneously. It is found that women in India are not empowered and treated lower status relatively to men. To overcome all the prevalent issues, many efforts have been done by government to empower women at national level across India by implementing various schemes and initiatives. This paper tries to postulates potentialities of women in various fields and initiatives undertaken by Government of India.

Women Empowerment in India: A Brief Discussion

Women empowerment is a debatable subject. At earlier time they were getting equal status with men. But they had faced some difficulties during post-Vedic and epic ages. Many a time they were treated as slave. From early twenty century(national movement) their statuses have been changed slowly and gradually. In this regard, we my mentioned the name of the British people. After then, independence of India, the constitutional makers and national leaders strongly demand equal social position of women with men. Today we have seen the women occupied the respectable positions in all walks of the fields. Yet, they have not absolutely free some discrimination and harassment of the society. A few number of women have been able to establish their potentialities. Therefore, each and every should be careful to promote the women statuses.

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.