Womens Empowerment

1. Women Empower-
ment
Submited by-Group ARYAAN

2. Gender equality
• Right as fundamental as any other in the national
and international bills of rights
• Because in the long run, discrimination against a
gender consequently breeds violation of the
discriminated persons
• Other basic rights such as education and expression

3. Women's empowerment
Women Empowerment refers to strengthening the
social, economic and educational powers of women.
It refers to an environment where there is no gender
bias and have equal rights in community, society and
workplaces
Become a significant topic of discussion
in development and economics .
 It can also point to the approaches regarding other
trivialized genders in a particular political or social
context.

4. Women's Economic Empowerment
• Refers to the ability for women to enjoy their right to
control and benefit from resources, assets, income
and their own time,
• As well as the ability to manage risk and improve
their economic status and well being

5. Challenges
Because of the inherent superiority complex among
the males, they often doesn’t allow their female counter-
part to rise as high as them.
High level of domestic responsibilities.
Restrictions to participate in social, economic and
religious activities.
In our society, the boy-child often gets preference for
education and healthy diet over the girl child.
Preference for male-child still exist among many
families in the society.

6. Steps for Social welfare
• To bring about advancement, development and
empowerment of women
• To eliminate all forms of discrimination against women
• To ensure active participation of women in all spheres of
life
• Increasing the coverage of women specific programmers
• Reviewing the laws to remove gender bias
• Campaigning for equal rights for women and men
• Enabling income-generating activities and livelihoods
options
• Providing support services like day-care centers with crèche
facilities, working women’s hostels etc
• Formulating laws and policies aimed at holistic
empowerment of women.

7. Govt. Goal
 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls
everywhere
 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in
the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual
and other types of exploitation
 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced
marriage and female genital mutilation
 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through
the provision of public services, infrastructure and social
protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility
within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal
opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in
political, economic and public life

8. Govt. Goal (cont.)
• Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive
rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing
Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review
conferences
• Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as
well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of
property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in
accordance with national laws
• Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and
communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
• Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the
promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and
girls at all levels

9. The Basic Skills required for Urban
Women
• To operate the washing machine
• To learn bookkeeping so that they know how
money comes and goes, profit and loss, costing,
etc
• To upgrade their skills in ironing and folding of
clothes
• Collection and delivery mechanism
• Self-promotion
• It is too early to predict about their success.

10. Recommendations
 Set up Fast Tracking Court Trial of cases of crimes against women including children.
 Provide relief to women as victims of crimes in terms of Monetary relief and rehabilitation
through meaningful livelihood.
 More Awareness Programmes to be held in rural areas.
 Strengthening of Forensic Department.
 Proper implementation of law, legal rights – identify gaps in the implementation between services
providers and stakeholders.
 Synergy among all the Government Departments dealing with Social legislations and welfare
concerning women and children.
 Gender sensitive curriculum in schools.
 Involvement and more pro – active role of Educational Institutions, Universities, NGOs and
Community.
 Adolescent Education to revamp and reinforced.
 Leadership training, sensitization and capacity building of women adolescent girls and village
durbar.
 Infrastructure facilities to be made available in the PHCs & CHCs
 Disseminate information through Information Education & Communication (IEC).
 Create a website of State Resource Centre for Women for publicity.

11. Conclusion
Both women and men should be made
aware of their responsibilities to promote and
practice gender-equality.Gather national data and
identify the areas where instances of violence and
gender-inequality is the most. This data can be used by
the Government, NGOs and field workers to raise the
status of women.The society should be made aware that
both boy-child and girl-child are equal, and they both
should have equal access to resources.