women empowerment

1. RIGHTS TO EDUCATION AND
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT :
A HUMANISTIC APPROACH
Grishma Khobragade,
Assit. Prof.
Department of English,
Birla College, Kalyan.
Dist. Thane .421304
(M.S.)

2. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR WOMEN (1990)
 Indian parliament passed resolution for women
empowerment in 1990
 to safeguard the rights and legal entitlements of
women
 reservation in the local bodies of Panchayats and
Municipalities for women (73 rd and 74 th Amendments in
1993 )
 Participation in decision making at the local levels
 Women reservation Bill

3. THE LITERACY RATES
 Equal With The Underdeveloped Countries
 The Literacy Rate For Male and Female Shows
That 75.85 Percent And 54.16 (2001
census)Percent respectively.
 Literary Mission abhiyan
 Primary Education Program

4. EDUCATE, AGITATE AND ORGANIZE
 afford higher education on par with all the
advanced sections of the society
 qualify for holding key positions in the
administration and power
 liberate from male hegemony
 Empowerment of women at all fronts

5. EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
 The adult education and entrepreneurship
development programmers
 The present curriculum and courses of study in
educational institution
 Technical and Skill based education to solve
problems
 Women education -holistic and comprehensive

6. CONSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIVES
 free and compulsory education for all children up to the age
of fourteen years remains unattained
 to control drop-out rate of girl children’, financial support and
compensation should be given to their parents
 to enhance the percentage of literacy among women
community
 OBSTACLES:
 insecurity and fear
 basics standard of infrastructure is horribly low, in rural areas
schools lack in every facility
 non availability of school or teachers within the surrounding
area
 teachers are appointed on clock hour basis.
 School and the management of fail to provide the primary
educational requirement.

7. SOCIAL CONSTRAINT AND EDUCATION:
 role of female is restricted to household work and looking
after children
 no offer or enough incentive to parents for expenditure on
girls’ education
 common trend of early marriage in rural areas.
 Gender disparity
 Equal right to take education for women and girls shall be
ensured

8. SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND ITS MEASURES
 There is a gap between the enrollment of boys and girls exist
at all levels of education in rural area.
 In spite of various schemes being launched by the
government, the backward classes still face social dishonor
and there is a lot to be done for the upliftment of these
classes.
 In all India level proportion of women in higher education is
low.

9. NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION FOR WOMEN (1986)
 According to plan, there are several reasons for the
slow development in women education Social
struggle arising out of fears and misconceptions
 isolate girls from traditions and social values and
lead to maladjustments and conflicts
 early marriage is a tradition and social inhibitions
 Prevalence of child labor weaker sections
 The hard domestic chores which unmarried girls
are required to perform

10. NATIONAL POLICY FOR EMPOWERMENT OF
WOMEN
 Objectives:
 to encourage active participation of all stakeholders for
achieving its goals
 Creating an environment through positive economic
and social policies for total development of women
 Enjoyment of al all human rights and fundamental
freedoms by women of equal basis with men in all
spheres-political, economic social, cultural and civil
 Equal access to involvement and decision making of
women in social, political and economic life of the
nation
 Equal access to women to health care, quality
education at all levels, career and vacation guidance,
employment, equal remuneration, occupational health
and safety, social security and public office etc.
 Strengthening legal system intended to elimination of all
forms of discrimination against women community.

11. SPECIAL MEASURES
 to eliminate gender discrimination,
 universalize education
 eradicate illiteracy
 develop the quality of education to facilitate
educational system
 improve the quality of education to facilitate life-
long learning
 development of profession education or technical
skills by women
 Minimize the gender gap in secondary and higher
education would be a focus area.

12. SPECIAL MEASURES AND SUGGESTIONS
 Awareness needs to be generated among the masses
regarding the necessity of educating girls
 to strengthen their role in society and to realize their own
capacities
 An incentive scheme should be introduced to motivate
panchayats to ensure 100 percent employment of women in
their respective villages
 more attractive by providing adequate infrastructure and
teaching materials in schools
 Regional language should normally the medium of instruction
 There should be a reservation of 50 % per cent post for
women teachers in elementary schools.
 Multi-entry system for girls who cannot attend schools
continuously should be adopted’

13. AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS
 to bring the status of women on equal footing with the rest of
the society the plight of the women remains largely awful
 struggles for the equality and equality participation in the
mainstream between women and men
 a struggle against male hegemony and prejudice shown
towards women

14. THANK YOU