Gender discrimination and lack of women's rights have been longstanding issues in India and other parts of the world. The document outlines some of the main problems women face, including gender discrimination, lack of education, female infanticide, dowry practices, child marriage, and violence. It also lists factors that contribute to women's lack of empowerment such as lack of education, financial constraints, family responsibilities, and low social status. Some results of these issues are high maternal mortality, human trafficking, malnutrition, child marriage, gender-based violence, and more. Empowering women involves giving them decision-making power, access to information and resources, a range of choices, and skills to improve their situations.

3. It is the process, and the outcome of the
process by which women challenge
gender based discrimination against
women / men in all the institutions &
structures of society.

4. “Women are worshipped as goddess in INDIA, but not given her
true position.”
The main problems faced by women in past and present
*Gender discrimination
*Women education
*Female infanticide
*Dowry
*Marriage in same caste and child marriage
*Atrocities on women: With their age, they have
been raped, kicked, Killed, subdued & humiliated
almost daily.

8. •Lack of education
•Financial constraint
•Family responsibility
•Low aspiration
•Absence of ambition for the
achievement, Social status

9. •Maternal Mortality
•Women Trafficking
•Malnutrition
•Child Marriage
•Dowry
•Gender Violence
•Child Labour
•Eve Teasing
•Sexual Harassment
•Family Abuse& a lot more…

11. Women having decision-making power of their own
 Having access to information and resources for
taking proper decision
 Having a range of options from which you can make
choices
 Ability to change other’s perceptions
 Ability to learn skills for improving one’s personal or
group

12. NAJIA SIDDIQI (was the acting director of
the women's affairs department in the
eastern province of Laghman. She was shot
dead by two unidentified men while
commuting in a motorised rickshaw )

13. Middle eastern countries ( Restriction
imposed )
• Driving a car
• Voting in elections
Poverty derived countries where women lack
rights and are denied schooling.