2. The subject of empowerment of women is 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. It is
held that women now cannot be asked to wait for any more for
equality.
Inequalities between men and women and discrimination against
women have also been age-old issues all over the world. Thus,
women’s quest for equality with man is a universal
phenomenon.
To what extent legislative measures have been able to raise the
status of women in India? Do women now feel empowered in the
sense that they are being equally treated by men in all spheres
of life and are able to express one’s true feminine urges and
energies? These are the important questions to be investigated
with regard to women’s empowerment in India.
This is precisely what is on our minds. Our research topic’
women empowerment’ allows us to find out answers of these
questions.
Eq-wall-ity
14. Q1. Are men and women treated equally?
Jobs (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother:Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: Yes
Safety (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: No
Grandfather:No
Feminist: No
QUESTIONNAIRE
15. Q2. Is the current status of women going through a positive change?
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes, improvement is seen in many fields of life.
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: Yes, definitely
Q3. Is women empowerment needed in today’s period? Justify
No, because in todays world everyone is treated equally
Yes, how much ever the world changes, women are still
considered inferior
Ans)
Father: a. No
Mother: b. Yes
Grandmother: b. Yes
Grandfather: b. Yes
Feminist: Yes
16. Q4. Are women more pragmatic than men? Justify
(a)in the decisions they make (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: No, 90% of the women are emotional
(b)the way they handle everything efficiently (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: Yes
17. Q5. Why are girls more likely to miss out on secondary education than boys?
(a)Due to marriage at early age (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather:Yes
Feminist: Yes, in rural areas
(b)household chores (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: Maybe among the poor
(c)due to the thought of boys being superior (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: No
Mother: No
Grandmother: No
Grandfather:No
Feminist: No
18. Q6. Does increase in rate of women education mean women empowerment?
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: Yes
Q7. Is it right that women are treated inferior to men?
Ans)
Father: No
Mother: No
Grandmother: No
Grandfather:No
Feminist: No
Q8. Why do women work after marriage?
To stabilize the family (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother:Yes
Grandfather: Yes
Feminist: Yes
19. Q9. Is feminism and women empowerment the same thing?
Ans)
Father: No, they are not the same thing.
Feminism is between women to understand what they want and how they
want it to be& Women empowerment is about system changing and
treating women equal to men and giving them fair changes in everything
Mother: No
Grandmother: No
Grandfather: No
Feminist: Yes, almost because it basically shows how women are at par
with men
Q10. Women are more competent and have more potential than men? (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: In some cases, they definitely are more competent, they are in-
sensitive while making important decisions of life. But men are equally
stable and have a lot of potential too. The ideal idea should to go out and
discover new things instead of comparing strengths, they should work
together to achieve and establish something new.
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather:Yes
Feminist: yes, in some cases not all
20. Q12. Girl infants are killed in some orthodox parts of the country. Justify.
(a)Marriage burden (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather:Yes
Feminist: Yes
(b)No helping hand for parents in old age (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: No
Mother: No
Grandmother: No
Grandfather:No
Feminist: Yes
(c) In want of a male child (yes or no)
Ans)
Father: Yes
Mother: Yes
Grandmother: Yes
Grandfather:Yes
Feminist: Yes
21. Has there been any change in women empowerment lately? How,
where and why? Is everybody happy with the change?
With the slogan of women empowerment the question arise that “are
women become really strong” and “is long term struggle has ended”.
Many programmes have been implemented and run by the government
in order to bring awareness in the society about the true rights and
value of the women in the development of the nation. Women need
to be progressed in the number of spheres. The real meaning of the
women empowerment is to make them well educated and leave them
free so that they can be capable to take their own decisions in any
field.
The ratio of female sex and female literacy both has increased.
According to the Global Gender Gap Index, India needs to take some
advance steps to improve the women position in the society through
the proper health, higher education and economic participation.
Women empowerment needs to take full speed in right direction
instead of being in nascent stage.
22. What does women empowerment mean?
Women Empowerment refers to increasing and improving the
social, economic, political and legal strength of the women, to
ensure equal-right to women, and to make them confident
enough to claim their rights, such as:
1. freely live their life with a sense of self-worth, respect and
dignity.
2. have complete control of their life, both within and outside
of their home and workplace.
3. to make their own choices and decisions.
4.have equal rights to participate in social, religious and
public activities.
5..have equal social status in the society.
6.have equal rights for social and economic justice.
determine financial and economic choices.
7.get equal opportunity for education.
8.get equal employment opportunity without any gender bias.
9.get safe and comfortable working environment.
23. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being
employed? For the woman, for the family, for the
children, for her husband, for the relationship.
Gender equality is a cornerstone of development. When women and
men are equal in a society poverty is reduced, economies flourish,
and the health of children and mothers improves as well as her
economic independence helps improves her status at home.
Yet despite progress in the last two decades women remain
marginalized across the globe. This is true for the world of work,
where women are often restricted from fully taking part in the
economy. Here, we explore why women's economic empowerment is
important for us all.
24. Who makes the decisions on who is doing what in the household?
Usually minor decisions like what to cook, what needs to
be bought for daily consumption etc are taken by women
in India whereas major decisions like buying house, Kids
education etc are taken by men.
Man is considered the head of the house and his wife is
usually seen obeying him in every respect.
25. Main question - Are women and men treated equally?
Answer-
Inequality was always there and is still present.Ask yourself this, starting
from the ancient age how did this situation come into being in the first
place, as of now. It's a gradual process, and nobody knows for sure, how
it crept into our society. But things are changing. In India, it's the
illiteracy and lack of proper work culture, in lower rungs of social ladder,
which is the main problem.
Logically speaking unless gender neutral laws are made, false accusers
are given proper punishment, and proper counter laws are formulated to
regulate the misuse of laws where women can accuse men directly
without any evidence, marriage becomes a lucrative business for the
female family, and a risky gamble for the male family.
Now-a-days, Gender Inequality varies from place to place. You can't just
look at one side of a dice of many perspectives. You must consider
numerous perspectives before reaching a conclusion. Although men tend
to use brute force to solve matters, there are in-numerous instances and
situations, where women gain unfair advantage above men behind the
backs, simply with the help of social and communication skills.
26. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE ANSWERS OF
PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS/FEMINIST
90% : Similar
10%: Different
