need for women empowerment

1. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
NIDHI

2. WHAT IS WOMEN EMPOWERMENT?
Women Empowerment is the creation of an
environment where women can make
independent decisions on their personal
development as well as shine as equals in
society.

3. WHY NEED FOR WOMAN
EMPOWERMENT ?
We need Women Empowerment to overcome social discrimination and differences. Woman are still not given
the equal respect and rights which they deserve. Woman are worshiped as goddess in India but not given her
true position. We need to overcome the main problem faced by woman in past and present like the following
:-

4. DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX
 In India, discriminatory attitude towards men and
women have existed for generations and affect
the lives of both genders. Although the
constitution of India has granted men and women
equal rights, gender disparity still remains. Gender

5. KILLING OF GIRL CHILD BEFOREAFTER HER BIRTH
 There is a sharp drop in the ratio of girls born in contrast
to boy infants in some states in India. the rate of live
births was 932 girls per 1000 boys in 2001, which dropped
to 912 by 2011. It is expected that if this trend
continues, by 2021 the number of girls will drop below 900
per 1000 boys.

6. CHILD MARRAIGE
 Child marriage is a big issue in India as 47% of girls
are married before18.
 Because of child marriage millions of girls lost their
childhood.

7. Rank Country Name % girls married
before 18
1 Niger 75
2 Chad 68
3 Central African Republic 68
4 Bangladesh 66
5 Guinea 63
6 Mozambique 56
7 Mali 55
8 Burkina Faso 52
9 South Sudan 52
10 Malawi 50
11 Madagascar 48
12 Eritrea 47
13 India 47
14 Somalia 45
15 Sierra Leone 44
16 Zambia 42
17 Dominican Republic 41
18 Ethiopia 41
19 Nepal 41
20 Nicaragua 41

8. Literacy rate of woman
LITERACY RATE CENSUS OF INDIA
YEA
R
LITERACY(
%) MALE(%)
FEMALE(
%)
CHANGE(
%)
2011 74.04 82.14 65.46 8.66
2001 65.38 75.85 54.16 -
 Education is not wise attained by Indian women. Although literacy rates are
increasing, female literacy rate lags behind the male literacy rate.
 Literacy for females stands at 65.46%, compared to 82.14% for males.

9. Lack of job opportunity
 Only about a third of working-age women in India have jobs.
 Educating girl child is still seen as a bad investment because she is bound to get married
and leave her paternal home one day. Thus, without having good education women are found
lacking in present day’s demanding job skills.
 Women in every state experience the pay gap, but some states are worse than others.
 In 2013, among full-time, year-round workers, women were paid 78 percent of what men
were paid.

10. Honor killings and Dowry deaths
 Cultural killing of women, either to reinstate
the lost honor of a family or as penalty for
not paying up the dowry demanded by the
groom's family still takes place in India.

11. WHY HAVE WOMEN BEEN THE
VICTIMS OF GENDER
DISCRIMINATION SINCE TIMES
IMMEMORIAL ?
 Attaining gender justice is not an easy task in India. From time immemorial, a girl child has been considered as an unwanted entity
and a burden. Discrimination against women begins even before her birth.
 Though the Indian constitution provides equal rights and privileges for men and women and makes equal provision to improve the
status of women in society, majority of women are still unable to enjoy the rights and opportunities guaranteed to them.
 The most important causes of gender disparity are poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, social customs, belief and anti-female
attitude .

12. CASE STUDY OF SOME WOMENS WHO
HAVE MANAGED TO EMPOWER
THEMSELVES

13. RAMABAI PANDITA
The founder of Mukti Mission
 Ramabai (1858–1922), championed the cause of women’s education. She never
went to school but learnt to read and write from her parents. She was given the
title ‘Pandita’ because she could read and write Sanskrit, which was a
remarkable achievement as women then were not allowed such knowledge. She
went on to set up a Mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898, where widows and
poor women were encouraged not only to become literate but to be independent.
They were taught a variety of skills from carpentry to running a printing press,
skills that are not usually taught to girls even today. Ramabai’s Mission is still
active today.
 She was awarded Kaisar-i-Hind medal for community service in 1919, awarded by

14. EARLY LIFE
 Ramabai’s childhood was full of hardships, she lost her
parents early and her husband expired within two years of
marriage. She had also to educate her only daughter,
Manorama Bai. Pandita Ramabai established Christian High
school at Gulbarga (now in Karnataka), a backward district
of south India, during 1912, and her daughter was
Principal of the school. In 1920 Ramabai’s body began to
flag and she designated her daughter as the one who
would take over the ministry of Mukti Mission. But
Manorama's untimely death was a shock to Ramabai. Nine
months later, Ramabai, who had been suffering from
septic bronchitis also died. She died on April 5, 1922, a
few weeks before her 64th birthday. Her contribution to
social reforms, community service and Christianity in
India is much appreciated.
 On 26 October 1989, in recognition of her contribution to
the advancement of Indian women, the Government of
India issued a commemorative stamp.

15. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited, current chairperson of IIM-Bangalore
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian entrepreneur.
She is the chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited, a
biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the current
chairperson of IIM-Bangalore. In 2014, she was awarded the Othmer
Gold Medal, for outstanding contributions to the progress of science
and chemistry. She is on the Financial Times’ top 50 women in business
list. As of 2014, she is listed as the 92nd most powerful woman in the

16. EARLY LIFE
Her father, Rasendra Mazumdar, was the head brew master at United
Breweries. He suggested that Kiran study fermentation science, and
train to be a brew master, a very nontraditional field for a
woman. Mazumdar went to Federation University in Australia to study
Malting and Brewing. In 1974 she was the only woman enrolled in the
brewing course, and the top of her class. She earned the degree of
Master Brewer in 1975.
When she founded Biocon in 1978, it was a small industrial-enzymes
company. Now Biocon is India's largest publicly traded
biopharmaceutical company, which had $460 billion in revenue last year
and distributes its products in 85 countries around the world. In 2014,
Mazumdar-Shaw won the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Othmer Gold
Medal for contributions to science through entrepreneurship, as well as
Germany's Keihl Institute Global Economy Prize for achievements in
business. Mazumdar-Shaw also runs philanthropic initiatives through
the Biocon Foundation and founded a 1,400-bed cancer center in
Bangalore in 2009. The facility is dedicated to providing care to all
patients, regardless of income level or social standing.

17. Aung Sang Suu Kyi
"In societieswheremen are trulyconfidentof theirown worth, womenare notmerelytoleratedbutvalued."
 Burmese opposition
politician Suu Kyi was
under house arrest for
15 years for her pre-
democracy campaigning.
She only gained release
in 2010 following an
international campaign to
let her free. She won a
nobel prize in 1991 where
it was said that "Suu
Kyi's struggle is one of
the most extraordinary
examples of civil courage

18.  Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945 in Rangoon (now
named Yangon). Her father, Aung San, founded the modern
Burmese army and negotiated Burma's independence from
the British Empire in 1947; he was assassinated by his
rivals in the same year. She grew up with her mother, Khin
Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San Oo, in
Rangoon. Aung San Lin died at the age of eight, when he
drowned in an ornamental lake on the grounds of the house.
Her elder brother emigrated to San Diego, California,
becoming a United States citizen. After Aung San Lin's
death, the family moved to a house by Inya Lake where Suu
Kyi met people of various backgrounds, political views and
religions. She is a Theravada Buddhist.
EARLY LIFE

19. Mother Teresa
"Notall of us can do great things.But we can do smallthingswith greatlove."
 Mother Teresa, the Nobel
Peace Prize winner (1979),
aimed at looking after those
who had nobody to look after
them through her own order
"The Missionaries of
Charity". She worked
tirelessly towards her goal
until her ill-health - that
included two heart attacks,
pneumonia and malaria -
forced her to step down in
March 1997, following which
she took her last breath in

20.  Mother teresa was an
albanian born as Anjezë Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu. She was born in Skopje,
now capital of the Republic of
Macedonia, at the time of
the Ottoman Empire. Her family
continued to live in Skopje until
1934, when they moved to Tirana
in Albania.
 She was the youngest of the
children of Nikollë and Dranafile
Bojaxhiu (Bernai). Her father,
who was involved in Albanian
politics, died in 1919 when she was
eight years old. Her father may
have been
from Prizren, Kosovo while her
mother may have been from a
village near Yakova.
EARLY LIFE

21. Benazir Bhutto
11th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1993-1996)
 She was the 11th
Prime Minister of
Pakistan (1993-1996)
and the first woman
to head a Muslim
state. During her
leadership, she ended
military dictatorship
in her country and
fought for women
rights. She was
assassinated in a
suicide attack in

22.  Bhutto was the daughter of the
politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
who was the leader of Pakistan
from 1971 until 1977. She was
educated at Harvard
University (B.A., 1973) and
subsequently studied philosophy,
political science, and economics
at the University of Oxford
(B.A., 1977).
 Bhutto’s autobiography ,
Daughter of the East, was
published in 1988 (also published
as Daughter of Destiny, 1989);
she also
wrote Reconciliation: Islam,
Democracy, and the West, which
was published in 2008.
EARLY LIFE

23. Florence Nightingale
"The lady with the lamp”
 "The lady with the
lamp", Florence
Nightingale, nursed
wounded soldiers during
the Crimean war. Her
passion and dedication
to the profession
changed public's
perception about this
profession. Her
insistence on improving
sanitary conditions for

24.  Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May
1820 into a rich, upper-class, well-
connected British family at the Villa
Colombia, in Florence, Italy, and was
named after the city of her birth.
Florence's older sister Frances
Parthenope had similarly been named
after her place of birth, Parthenopolis,
a Greek settlement now part of the city
of Naples. When Florence was 1, the
family moved back to England in 1821,
with Nightingale being brought up in the
family's homes at Embley and Lea Hurst.
 Florence Nightingale's most famous
contribution came during the Crimean
War, which became her central focus
when reports got back to Britain about
the horrific conditions for the wounded.
EARLY LIFE
A print of the jewel awarded to
Nightingale by Queen Victoria,
for her services to the soldiers
in the war

25. We can create awareness by the following ways :-
Social integration
Increasing women employment
By increasing the participation of women in politics and
social activities
Arranging social protection program
Generating awareness among parents
Giving scholarships to girls
Social welfare and developments by politicians
Promoting NGOs so that they could eradicate Gender
Inequality
Helping them become tech-savvy
HOW TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT GENDER
EQUALITY ?

26.  I think that inequalities may go on but the real change will
only come when the mentality of people will change; when
each and everyone would start treating women as equal
and not as weaker than them. Infact not only men but
women also need to change their mindset as they are also
are playing a supportive role in furthering men’s agenda of
dominating women.
 Therefore, what is needed is the movement for Women’s
empowerment where women can become economically
independent and self-reliant; where they can snatch their
rights; where women have equal respect, ownership of
property , good education, good career and above all
where they have freedom of choice and also the freedom
to make their own decisions without the bondages .We
need to be the change we want to see in the society.
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