ICT has made a huge contribution to women's empowerment. women living in remote and rural areas are also being benefitted by ICT and they are making their contribution to society-building and development of the country.
3. INTRODUCTION
The evolution of new forms of technologies and
imaginative forms of applications of the new and
older technologies makes the lives of the people
better and more comfortable in several ways.
Information is the key to democracy. With the
advent of ICT, it has become possible for the
common man to access global information.
4. ICTs are defined as
A diverse set of technology
Tool in growth of economic
activities in efficient governance.
A human resource development which create,
disseminate, store, and bring value addition
and Managing information.
A field that connects telecommunication
networks with computers which can provides
useful application.
5. EMPOWERMENT
The giving or delegation of power or authority
The giving of an ability , enablement or
permission
6. United National Development Found for Women
(UNIFEM) defined the term women empowerment
as:
• Acquiring knowledge and understanding of
gender relations and the ways in way to
Developing a sense of self worth
• Gaining the ability to generate choices to
exercise bargaining power.
knowledge and ability generation
• Developing the ability to organize and influence
the directions of social change, to create a more
just social and economic order, nationally and
internationally
Organise and influence
7. Indicator Male Female
Literacy rate (%) 82.14 65.46
Maternal Mortality rate (per 1
lakh live birth)
_ 212
Sex ratio 1000 940
Child sex ratio 1000 914
Worker population ratio (per
1000)
819 336
MPs in Lok Sabha (%) 89.18 10.82
Report of the Working Group on Women’s Agency and Empowerment, 2011
Selected Indicators on Status of Women
8. CAUSES OF GENDER INEQUALITY
• Patriarchal society
• Son preference
• Discrimination against girls
• Poverty
• Lack of awareness
• Low educational Status
• Dowry, Marriage laws
10. Need of Women empowerment
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
LEGAL
ISSUES
ECONOMICAL
ISSUES
SOCIAL
ISSUES
HEALTH &
SAFETY
POVERTY
IN THE
COUNTRY
11. EDUCATION
only 65.46% of adult
women are known to be
literate in India.
Data Source: Census of India 2011
12. Education
Gender gaps in higher education:
About 1 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.
13. 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.
(ILO report)
14. HEALTH & SAFETY
The maternal mortality report of India
stands at 301 per 1000, with as many
as 78,000 women in India dying of
childbirth complications in that year.
* 2009 report, UNICEF
15. The main causes of maternal mortality
are:-
Hemorrhage
Anemia
Obstructed Labor
Sepsis
Abortion
Toxaemia
30%
19%
10%
8%
16%
8%
16. Economic Independence
Economic independence does not imply
significant improvement in social standing
Culture and tradition play an important
role.
A small fraction has opened up towards
Western values
17. Legal issues
Women specific Legislations
Immoral Traffic
The Maternity Benefit
The Dowry Prohibition
Indecent Representation of Women The
Commission of Sati
Protection of Women from Domestic
Violence Act, 2005
18. WOMEN and ICT
Most Women
are
• tradition
bound.
Inequality
in
• Access and
participation
• Insufficient
mobilization
to promote
women's
contribution to
society
Potential
exists for
the media
to
• make a far
greater
contribution
advancement of
women.
19. Careers in the communications sector.
few have attained positions at the decision-
making level or serve on governing boards
and bodies that influence media policy.
20. ICT leads to…….Women of 21st Century
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Technology literate dynamic
Have multimodal learning style
life long learner
Media savvy
Good Communication and collaboration
Multitasking
Creative and adaptive
21. ICT for women empowerment
ICT can provide special training for them, in
home based or small-scale activities related to
handloom, handicraft, sericulture etc.
ICT enables work to be brought to homes
and allows for better accommodation of work and
family schedules.
Women have also been able to capture a large
proportion of jobs in ICT-enabled services
because of the worldwide shortage of skills
necessary for work in this sector.
22. ICT has made a tremendous impact in
imparting knowledge on modern technology
and its uses.
ICT empower women in various areas like
social, educational, psychological,
political, technological and economical as
well as few degree of disempowerment due to
some internal and external reasons (Beena et
al.2012).
Empowerment of women in the context of
knowledge societies is understood as
building the ability and skills.
23. New ICT jobs for women especially in India are
in the service industries in information
processing, banking, insurance, printing and
publishing.
the most promising potential for women is in
the creation of new jobs at “Call Centers” and
in work involving data processing.
ILO reports that “telecentres and ‘fax booths’
have created a quarter of a million jobs in India
in the last four years alone, a huge proportion
of which have gone to women”
24. CONCLUSION
Building technological, information and media
fluencies among women
Developing thinking skills needed for better
women professionals.
Developing problem solving skills.
ICT is collaborative in nature and uses enabling
and empowering techniques.
ICT fosters contextual learning bridging the
disciplines and curriculum.
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25. CONCLUSION(Cont…)
Provides access to a range of tools and
resources.
Innovative uses of technology in practice.
Communication via social media tools such as
Twitter and Facebook.
Women are motivated and purposefully
engaged in the learning process when
concepts and skills are underpinned with
technology and sound pedagogy.
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