3. What is Women Empowerment?
• Women empowerment refers to increasing
the spiritual,political,social,educational
or economic strength of individuals and
communities of women.
• It is basically giving power to women in
space of society where they did’nt have it.
4. Women Empowerment has
five components:
• Women’s sense of self worth.
• Their right to have and determine choices.
• Their right to have access to opportunities and
resources.
• Their right to have the power to control their own
lives, both within and outside the home.
• Their ability to influence the direction of social
change.
5. Need of women
empowerment?
• GENDER DISCRIMINATION
• FEMALE INFANTICIDE
• DOWRY
• ATROCITIES ON WOMEN
• OLD STATUS OF WOMEN
6. FACTS
• Over the last 3 years, there were over 24000 reported DOWRY
deaths in India.
• As many as 70% of married women in India between 15 and 49
years of age are victims Of beatings or rape.
• According to UNICEF, Foetal sex determination by unethical
medical professional has today grown into a ₹1000 crore industry
in India.
• A recent survey revealed that the median wage for women in
India was 27% lower than what men make.
7. Barriers Of women
empowerment in INDIA
• Caste system
• Child labour practice
• Higher dropout rate among girls
• Parental preference for boys going to
school
• Poverty
• Poor school environment for girls
• Female age at marriage
8. STRATEGIES:
• Providing education
• Self employment and self help groups
• Providing minimum needs
• Society should change mentality
• Recognizing work of various NGO’s
• Inreasing the minimum wages of women
• Giving counselling on perosonality
development
• Micro finance
9. Six ‘S’ for women empowerment
• Shiksha = Education
• Swasthya = Health
• Swavlamban = Self reliance
• Samajik Nyay = Justice
• Samvedana = Sensitivity
• Samaanta = Equality
10. Programmes/Schemes:
• Mahila E-haat
• Beti Bachao Beti padao
• One stop centre scheme
• Women Helpline scheme
• UJJAWALA
• Working women hostel
• Swadhar Greh
• Support to training and employment programme(STEP)
11. UNIFEM is the Women’s fund at the
united nations
• It provides technical and financial assistance
to promoting women’s right,political
participation and economic security.
12. Four Strategic areas:
• Reducing Feminized Poverty.
• Ending Violence against Women.
• Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS
among women and girls.
• Gender equality in democratic
governance.
13. CONCLUSION
Women empowerment has to be:
• Holistic( Political,social,educational and economic)
• Universal( Equal opportunity and Level playing field)
IF YOU CHANGE NOTHING,NOTHING
WILL CHANGE.
