3. DEFINITION
• “Empowerment is the process of increasing the authority and
responsibility of individuals or groups to make choices and to
transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes”.
4. Women's empowerment has five
components:
• Women's sense of self-worth;
• Their right to have and to
Determine choices;
• Their right to have access to
Opportunities and resources;
• Their right to have the power to
Control their own lives, both
Within and outside the home;
• And their ability to influence the
Direction of social change to
Create a more just social and
Economic order, nationally and
Internationally.
5. Women in India
o Total population - 1210.2
million (2011)
{Almost equal to the combined
population of U.S.A.,
Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Japan
put together}
o Women population - 586.5
million (48.5%)
o Sex ratio: 943/1000 men
o Child Sex ratio: 919 /1000
6. Shocking Facts
• According to 2013, UNDP report on
Human Development Indicators, all South
Asian Countries, except Afghanistan, were
ranked better for women than India
• It predicts: an Indian girl child aged 1-5
years is 75% more likely to die than the boy
child
• A woman is raped once in every 20min and
10% of all crimes are reported to be of Women
form 48% of India’s population
• Only 29% of the national
workforce
• Only 26% of women have access
to formal credit
7. •NEW DELHI: being equal to their male counterparts is still a
far cry for Indian women. Not only are they marginal as public
figures, an average Indian woman can hardly call the shots at
home or outside.
•In 2012, women occupied only eight out of 74 ministerial
positions in the union council of ministers. There were only
two women judges
Out of 26 judges in the supreme court, and there were only 54
Women judges out of 634 judges in various high courts.
