women empowerment ppt

2. WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
PREPARED BY,
MS RAKSHA GEDAM
MSc 1st year
BHCON-MUMBAI

3. EMPOWERMENT
•Empowerment refers to the increasing
spiritual, political, social and
economical strength of individuals and
community.
•Empowerment is a multidimensional
process that helps people gain control
over their own lives.

4. Women empowerment
•It is process and outcome of the
process by which women challenge
gender based discrimination in
every institution and structure of
the society.

5. •Women empowerment means freedom
of women from the vicious grips of
social, economical, political, caste and
gender based discrimination.
•It means granting women the freedom
to make life choices.

6. •Swami Vivekananda quoted that,
“There is no chance for the welfare of the
world unless the condition of women is
improved”.
Pandit Jawaharlal nehru said,
“when women move forward the family
move, the village move and the nation
move.”

7. TYPES
1.Social
2.Educational
3.Economic
4.Political
5.Psychological

8. PRINCIPLES
1.Establish high-level
corporate leadership for
gender equality.

9. 2.Treat all women and men
fairly at work respect and
support human rights and non-
discrimination

10. 3.Ensure the health, safety
and well being of all
women and men workers.

11. 4.Promote education,
training and
professional
development for
women

12. 5.Implement enterprise
development, supply
chain and marketing
practice that empower
women.

13. 6. Promote equality
through community
initiative and
advocacy.

14. 7.Measure and publicly
report on progress to
achieve gender equality

15. NEED FOR WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
Women are deprived of-
 Decision making power
 Freedom of movement
 Access to education
Exposure to media
Domestic violence

16. STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIAN SOCIETY
•“In order to awaken people, it
is the people who have to be
awakened, once she moves
the country moves an thus we
build the indian of tomorrow.”

17. •India is now in transition age-
present century is the “knowledge
century era.”
•A knowledge driven generation
will be an asset for the progress
and development of the nation

18. •To achieve and sustain the high
growth rates, access in education
should be open for the entire
population without any
discrimination.
•As women are the dynamic
promotes of social transformation
their empowerment & education is
must.

19. STATUS IN ANCIENT INDIA
•During this period women had high
social and religious status.
•There is sufficient evidence in
Vedic literature that in Vedic period
women were imparted Vedic
education and used to take part in
religious rites.

20. •They were also authors of certain
Vedic hymns.
•Women of that age were capable
of learning and understand
philosophical doctrines.

21. •In Vedic age women remain
unmarried for higher studies
•The women education has been
highly appreciated in Atharva
veda.

22. STATUS IN BUDDHIST AGE
•With the rise of Buddhism,
there came a relief to
women.
•Buddhism thought describe
illiteracy as a crime.

23. •They allowed women to
recite hear and learn by
heart religious discourses.
•But women had lower
status to men

24. STATUS IN MEDIEVAL PERIOD
•The condition of women in India
came to be worst during Muslim
rules
•The custom of pardah extended
to the whole of higher class.

25. •Women of lower strata could not afford
to confine themselves within the four
walls of home as they had to work
outside.
•During the medieval period only system
of ‘Pardah’ and ‘Jauhar’ were being
introduced by Muslim and Rajput
community against women.

26. STATUS IN BRITISH PERIOD
In that time women were considered a
completely inferior, means inferior to male
having no significance, no personality. They were
almost uneducated.
Due to efforts social reformers the status of
women was improved which recognise them in
their own rights.

27. •Hindu Dharma Shastras and
custom had already paved way
for their complete
subordination to male through
deprivation of property rights,
worship of husband as Gods,
dowry and sati system.

28. STATUS IN MODERN
INDIA
•Position and starts of today’s women in
India is considerably changed in modern
Indian society.
•A country or a community cannot be
considered civilized where women is not
honoured.
•As a result Indian women enjoying the high
position in our society.

29. •Modern Indian women today occupying high
ranking post like I.A.S; I.P.S; defence services,
participate in various sports.
•Woman like recent times like mother Teresa,
Vijay Laxmi Pandit, M.S. Shubhlaxmi, Lata
Mangeshkar, our ex-president smt. Pratibha
Patil etc. have achieved international fame.

30. STAGES OF
WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

31. 1.Powerless
2.Initiation
3.Participation
4.Adoption
5.leadership

32. SIX ‘S’
FOR
WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

33. 1.Shiksha – education
2.Swastya – health
3.Swavlmban – self reliance
4.Samajik nyay – justice
5.Samvedan – sensitivity
6.Samta – equality

34. WAY TO ACHIEVE EMPOWERMENT
•Self help group
•Angan badis
•Government schemes
•Micro-finance
•Self employment

35. CONSTRAINS
•Lack of education
•Traditional limit view participation
•Family responsibilities
•Low mobility
•Low ability to bear risks
•Low social status
•Conflict among women’s group

36. CHANGES OF AN EMPOWER WOMEN
•Improve personal knowledge
•Self defining power
•Authenticity
•Creativity
•Physical strength
•Equality

37. •Mutuality In relationship
•Economic independence
•Freedom from oppression
•Having political power in society

38. MEASURMNTS & ASSESSMENTS
•GEM( gender empowerment
measures)
•GDI( gender parity index)

39. PROJECTS FOR WOMEN
SHE
SHOULD
RUN

40. GIRLS
NOT
BRIDES

41. THE
MALALA
FUND

42. WOMEN
IN
DEFENCE

43. WOMEN
FOR
WOMEN
INTERNATION
AL

44. EVERY
MOTHER
COUNTS...
.

45. ACT’S FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
•Hindu widow remarriage act,1856
•Indian panel code,1860
•Indian evidence act,1872
•Hindu marriage act,1955
•Hindu adoption and maintenance
act,1952

46. •Immoral traffic prevention act, 1956
•Dowry prohibition act
•Maternity benefit act, 1961
•Medical termination of pregnancy act
•National commission for women act.
•Domestic violence act, 2005

47. PROGRAMME AND
SCHEMES
•Beti bachao- beti padhao scheme (22
jan2015)
•One stop centre scheme (1 April2015)
•Women helpline scheme (1 April2015)

48. •UJJAWALA (Dec.2017)
•Working women hostel (introduced in 1972-
73)
•Rajiv Gandhi national crèche scheme for the
children of working mothers
•SWADHAR scheme ( a scheme for the women
in difficult circumstances)

49. •Nari Shakti purskar
•Rashtriya mahila kosh
•Central socil welfare board
•Development of children
and women in rural reas

50. •Support to training an employment
programme
•Mahila e-haat
•Women empowerment and livehood
programme in mid-gangatic plains –
priyadarshani