Women empowerment is the process of increasing women's capacity to make choices and transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. It aims to promote women's participation in all areas through building stronger economies, improving quality of life, and achieving gender equality. The document outlines issues faced by women in India such as gender discrimination, lack of education, dowry practices, and atrocities. It discusses national laws and policies aimed at empowerment as well as facts about women's participation. Suggested ways to achieve empowerment include self-help groups, government schemes, microfinance, self-employment, and changing social attitudes. The conclusion states that until women have equal opportunities as men, societies will underperform their potential.

1. Women Empowerment
Submitted by-
Mahak Jain
BA(JMC)
Submitted to-
Ms. Khooshbu

2. Content
• What is women empowerment?
• The need for empowerment
• National laws and policies
• Facts
• Issues and Trends
• Ways to achieve empowerment
• Conclusion

3. What is women empowerment?
• Women empowerment is the process of
increasing the capacity of the individuals or
groups to make choices and to transfer those
choices to desired actions and outcomes.
• It is to motivate and develop women by
promoting their participation in all areas and
sectors, to build stronger economies, improve
their quality of life and bring gender equality with
equal amount of opportunities.

4. The needfor empowerment
The problems faced by women can be seen in every
sector i.e. economical, social, political, educational.
Some of them are-
• Gender discrimination
• Women education
• Dowry
• Child marriage
• Atrocities on women: With their age they have been
raped, kicked, killed, subdued and humiliated almost
daily.

5. National laws and policies
• One third reservation for women in the urban and
local self government.
• Free and compulsory education- a right for all
children between the age group of 6-14 years.
• The constitution empowers the state to adopt
measures of positive discrimination in favor of
women.
• National policy of women empowerment(2001)-
advancement and development and empowerment
of women.
• The national commission for women (1990)

6. Facts
• Women comprises 48.3% of India's population
but only 26.1% of employed persons( Indian
census 2011)
• 80% of rural women are engaged n agricultural
production but only 9% own land.
• 55% of women perceive violence as their
marriages.
• 75% of battered women commit suicide.

7. Issues and Trends
Trapped in social and cultural practices
• Powerless to make essential life choices,
dominant behaviors and mindsets, inequalities
within households.
Education
• Poor infrastructure, lack of non-formal education
system.
Economic participation
• Informal infrastructure, low skills, risk of
exploitation, legal status.

8. Ways to achieve empowerment
• Self help group
• Anganbadi
• Government schemes
• Micro finance
• Self employment

9. Ways to empower women
• Creating an enabling environment.
• Changes in attitudes and relationship between gender.
• Training teachers and public workers to excel.
• Help them to become business leaders.
• Help them to get good and better education.
• Help them to fight against crime and encourage them
to take step for themselves.
• Engaging youth to give information and to support
women empowerment

10. Conclusion
Women represents half of the worlds population,
and gender inequality exists in every nation on
the planet. Until women are given the same
opportunities that men have, entire societies will
be destined to perform below their potentials.
The greatest need of the hour is change of social
attitude to women.