WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

1. SEMINAR
ON
WOMEN EMPOWRMENT WITH
REFERENCE TO INDIA
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF SMT. WRITUPARNA CHAKRABORTY
SUBMITTED BY: KUHELI DAS
ROLL- G/CBPBU/3RD
SEM NO.12089
DEPARMRNT OF GEOGRAPHY
COOCH BEHAR PANCHANAN BARMA UNIVERSITY

2. INTRODUCTION
Women Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual,
political, social, educational, gender, or economic
strength of individuals and communities of women. The
subject of empowerment of women has becoming a
burning issue all over the world including India since
last few decades. Many agencies of United Nations in
their reports have emphasized that gender issue is to be
given utmost priority.
KUHELI DAS SEMINAR ON WOMEN EMPOWRMENT WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA

3. OBJECTIVES
•Holistic approach to empowerment
•Inequality
•Needs for women empowerment
•Social ,Economical, Political Empowerment
•Violence and Women
•Steps taken by Govt. and NGO’s for Women
Empowerment
•Current condition of Women's in India
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4. HOLISTIC APPROACH TO EMPOWERMENT
Health
& Nut.
Education
Water & San.
Skills
Technology
Credit
Political
Participation
Marketing
Asset base
Family
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5. HOW TO REDUCE INEQUALITIES AND
ADVANCE THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Productive resources
Participation in rural institutions and
decision making.
Basic services and rural infrastructure
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6. REDUCING INEQUALITIES EMPOWERING WOMEN
NutritionNutrition
Maternal
Mortality
Maternal
Mortality
Infant
Mortality
Infant
Mortality
HIV/
AIDS
HIV/
AIDS
Malaria and
Other Diseases
Malaria and
Other Diseases
Income GrowthIncome Growth
Water
and
Sanitation
Water
and
Sanitation Universal
Primary Education
Universal
Primary Education
Gender Equality/
Women’s
Empowerment
Gender Equality/
Women’s
Empowerment
ODA For
Basic
Services
ODA For
Basic
Services
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7. HURDLES AND CHALLENGES IN
EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
Poverty
Literacy
Computer literacy
Socio-Cultural aspects
Early marriages & Many children
Language barriers
Spending patterns
Ownership
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8. NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMNENT
• Decision Making Power
• Freedom of Movement
• Access to Education
• Access to Employment
• Exposure to Media
• Violence Free Domestic Environment
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9. SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT
• Social empowerment of women is only a part of the overall mainstreaming
of women.
• Education of women means greater awareness of their role in society.
• Awareness of their rights, better knowledge of housekeeping and better
performance of their roles as a housewife and mother.
• Education and training have opened up the avenues of employment and
self-employment in the organized sector. As never before women are
working in diverse fields as doctors, engineers, IAS officers, IPS officers,
bank officials and in a wide range of sectors in the unorganized sector. In
agriculture, most of the operations are run by women.
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10. LAW AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Laws prohibiting gender discrimination based in the home
and in the public sphere have to be evolved and
implemented. As this process will take place in the years to
come, the aspect of gender based violence requires
immediate attention. Hence the focus of the action in the
11th 5 year plan is on issues of gender based violence.
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11. ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
Economic status of women has definitely improved after
they empowered. The empowered women have been able to
further strengthen their own economic activities as
individuals and as groups by taking loans from their own
kitty and from the banks and other credit institutions. This
has generated enthusiasm and self confidence in women
who become role models for other women in the village to
emulate.
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12. POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
The percentage of women voting has gone up considerably.
The members are now more sensitive about political issues
and their impact on their lives. Participation of women at
Panchayat levels has increased and some of them have been
elected to the Panchayats and urban local bodies.
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13. INCREASING NUMBER OF POLITICAL
PARTICIPATION
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Source:Parliament of India , NSS Survey Report 2009

14. VIOLENCE AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• About two in five currently married women age 15-49
have experienced spousal violence in their current
marriage, and among women who have ever experienced
such violence, more than two in three have experienced
violence in the past.
• Recent experience of spousal violence varies little by
marital duration, but, as expected, ever experience of
spousal violence increases with marital duration.
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15. • Higher education and wealth consistently lower women’s
risk of spousal violence; and husbands’ consumption of
alcohol and having a mother who was beaten by her spouse
significantly increase the risk.
• Although women who agree that wife beating is justified
have a higher prevalence of violence, one out of three
women who do not agree that wife beating is justified have
also experienced violence.
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16. SCHEMES FOR WOMEN DEVELOPMENT
SCHEMES FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Swa-Shakti
(1999)
Support to Training and
Employment Programme
(STEP) (1987)
Swayamsiddha
(2001)
Swablamban Programme
(1982-83)
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17. WOMEN WELFARE PROGRAMMES
• State Homes
• Service Homes
• Working Women’s Hostels
• Vocational Training Centres
• Regional Tailoring Centres
• Craft Training Centres
• District Crafts including Tailoring Centres
• Women Technical Training Institute (WTTI)
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18. CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES
FOR RURAL WOMEN
Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
 Training for Rural Youth for Self-Employment (TRYSEM)
 Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA)
 Mahila Samriddhi Yojana (MSY)
Indira Mahila Yojana (IMY)
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK)
 The Velugu Programme
Indira Kranti Patham
 Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)
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19. ROLE OF NGO’s
Non-governmental organizations are playing a significant
role in the empowerment of disadvantages women. Just a
few years after Independence, the Government set up the
Central Social Welfare Board, an apex body of the
voluntary sector that aids more than 10,000 NGO’s across
the country, helping women stand on their own through
such programme as socio-economic programme,
vocational training and other similar programmes.
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20. WOMEN AND GLOBALISATION
• Positive correlation between women’s share of employment andPositive correlation between women’s share of employment and
overseas transfer in response to better job opportunities in countriesoverseas transfer in response to better job opportunities in countries
such as Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, and Sri Lanka (Nordas,such as Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, and Sri Lanka (Nordas,
2003)2003)
• Broad trends based on cross-country analysis indicate that exportBroad trends based on cross-country analysis indicate that export
promotion and trade liberalization policies have led to feminization ofpromotion and trade liberalization policies have led to feminization of
labour force in developing countries (Wood, 1991; Cagatay and Ozler,labour force in developing countries (Wood, 1991; Cagatay and Ozler,
1995)1995)
• Support for this overall trend found in large number of country caseSupport for this overall trend found in large number of country case
studies that associate feminization of labour force in developingstudies that associate feminization of labour force in developing
countries with spread of export-led industrialization (Cagatay andcountries with spread of export-led industrialization (Cagatay and
Berik, 1991)Berik, 1991)
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24. SECTORS OF WORK PARTICIPATION
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SOURCE:NSS SURVEY REPORT OF INDIA 2009

25. ROLE OF EMPOWERMENT
IN COUNTRY’S ECONOMY
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26. THE HEALTH CONDITION OF WOMEN DURING
EMPOWERMENT
POPULATION/1000FEMALESFEMALECHILD/1000
SOURCE: GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2012
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27. PERCENTAGEOFFEMALES(%)FEMALESINPERCENTAGE
SOURCE: GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2012
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28. CONCLUSION
Women represent half the world’s population, and gender
inequality exists in every nation on the planet. Until women are
given the same opportunities that men are, entire societies will be
destined to perform below their true potentials .The greatest need
of the hour is change of social attitude towards women.
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29. REMARKABLE WOMEN IN INDIAN
HISTORY
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Indira Gandhi Mother Teresa Mira Nair Kalpana Chawla
Gurinder Chadha Sushmita Sen Aishwarya Rai

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