MY PERSONAL PRESENTATION ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT #MKBU

1. Women
Empowerment

2. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Prepared by- Divya Choudhary
Class- M.A.
Semester- 2
Email id- choudharydivya400@gmail.com
Smt. S B Gardi
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

3. It is the process, and the
outcome of the process, by
which women challenge
gender-based discrimination
against women in all the
institutions and structures of
society.

4. VALUES of an
Empowered Woman
PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE
explore and trust own thoughts, emotion,
desires and experiences;
recognize positive and negative characteristics;
set goals and work toward them;
know about positive value assertion,
stubbornness and decisiveness;
knows self through own creative work;

5. know personal truth and trust her
intuition;
credit self for her thoughts, feelings, and
actions;
emphasize self-knowledge over other-
knowledge;
discern real wants and needs from those
forced upon her by the problems,
dependencies and other sources of her
oppression.

6. SELF – DEFINING
Create her own definition of
herself rather than accept others’
definition of her.
Views herself as a complete
human person.
Struggles to overcome
conventional stereotypical picture
of femininity (submissive, quiet,
unintelligent)
Has the courage to try non-
traditional behaviors.

7. Develops her own standards and
values, determining for herself what is
important for her to do.
Acknowledges her personhood as
separate from the family or a man.
She defines herself as a complete,
whole human person, not a helpmate
to man, a mother, a housewife, or
server of others’ needs.

8. PERSONAL POWER
Personally strong, not from dominating others, but
from their love, trust and faith in themselves and
other women. It involves being active, assertive,
and skillful.
Do not require support from man to survive. Are
self-reliant, independent, and autonomous. Have a
sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.
Self-governing and seeks guidance from themselves.
Trusts own experiences and have a sense of self-
worth and positive self-image.

9. PHYSICAL STRENGTH
Strength, vitality, health, stamina,
and fearlessness are needed for
women to accomplish their goals
Physical power and physical
equality with men are also
needed.

10. EQUALITY
The right of women and men to live as free and
equal human beings, equality should exist in all
areas of life:
women’s constitutional rights as citizens
work
access to wealth
responsibilities within a marriage including
child rearing and the financial and physical
maintenance of the home
align treatment of problems

11. ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE
Women must learn to
understand economics and how
to make money. This will enable
us to be financially self
sufficient and therefore
economically independent of
men.

12. WOMEN IDENTIFICATION
Women value themselves and other women
as women:
• crediting women for what they have been
responsible for and affirming women’s
capacity to be capable, intelligent and
ethical.
• encouragement of the nurturance of the
women spirit and identity reflected in the
awareness of and the preservation of
women’s cultural heritage for future
generations.

13. • Concept of sisterhood wherein women share
personal concerns and common unity based on
their understanding and love for themselves and
other women.
• To liberate themselves, women must stop
selling out their identities as women by rejecting
restrictive gender roles, stereotypes and by
claiming all territory as women’s territory.

14. HAVING POLITICAL POWER
IN SOCIETY
Involved in making decisions
shaping society, to exercise their
own voice and to have the power to
influence the decisions being made
in society.

15. FOR EVERY WOMAN
For every woman who is tired of acting weak
when she knows she is strong,
There is a man who is tired of appearing strong
when he feels vulnerable.
For every woman who is tired of acting dumb,
There is a man who is burdened with the constant
expectation of “knowing everything”.

16. For every woman who is tired of being called
an “emotional female”
There is a man who is denied the right to
weep and be gentle.
For every woman who feels “tied down”
by her children,
There is a man who is denied the full
pleasure of shared parenthood.
For every woman who is denied meaningful
employment and equal pay,
There is a man who must bear full responsibility
for another human being.

17. For every woman who was not taught
the intricacies of the automobile,
There is a man who was not taught
the satisfaction of cooking.
For every woman who takes a
step toward her own liberation,
There is a man who finds that the
way to freedom has been made a
little easier.