This document discusses the need for women's empowerment in India. It outlines several problems faced by women historically and currently, including gender discrimination, lack of education, female infanticide, dowry practices, child marriage, and various forms of violence and atrocities against women. Specific issues discussed include maternal mortality, malnutrition, trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. The document advocates for strategies like education, campaigns, networking and training to empower women and achieve a more just and equal society through collective efforts.

1. Women
Empowerment
Submitted By-
Jastinder Pal Singh
MBA (2015-17)
15421163
School of Management Studies, Punjabi University Patiala

3. Why need of women
empowerment?
“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.

4. HARASSMENT
EXPLOITATION
DISCRIMINATION

7. Threats to them are many…
•The physical, sexual and psychological harm or
suffering to women.
•Includes threat of such an act, coercing or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether
occurring in public or
private life.

8. Lack of education,
Financial constraint,
Family responsibility,
Low mobility,
Low ability to bear risk,
Low need for achievement,
Absence of ambition for the
achievement,
Social status
What are the main problems?

9. Begging for Food
She lost her children out of
Hunger and Poverty
She is just 15 yrs, her son is 18 months old

10. The lost Childhood….
School days……
Child Labour

11. It is well known that women and children work in huge numbers in
bidi-rolling, agarbatti-rolling, bangle making, weaving, brassware,
leather, crafts and other industries.
Yet, only 3 % of these women are recorded as laborers.
CORRPUTION

12. They also suffer from…
Maternal Mortality
Women Trafficking
Malnutrition
Exploitative Practices
Child Marriage
Dowry
Gender Violence
Child Labor
Eve Teasing
Sexual Harassment
Family Abuse
& a lot more…

13. • 1 Crime Committed Against Women
every 3 Minutes
• 1 Rape case every 29 Minutes
• 1 Sexual Harassment case every 53
Minutes
• 1 Dowry Death case every 77 Minutes
• 1 Cruelty by Husband and Relatives
case every 9 Minutes
The crime clock maintained by the
NCRB reveals a shocking figure
of:

14. 60 % of the Girls are married before the age of 16
Nearly 60% of the married girls bear children before
they are 18
125,000 women die from pregnancy and related
causes every year
Maternal mortality in India is the 2nd highest in the
world

15. Specific legislation on gender based issues
• Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (28 of 1961)
• Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act, 1979
• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act
2005.
• Commission of Sati Prevention Act 1987 (3 of
1988)
• Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition)
Act, 1986
• Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act,
• Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Technique Act, 1994
• Medical Termination of Pregnancies Act (1971)

16. STRATEGIES
FOR THE FUTURE
Education
Research/
Documentatio
n
Campaigns
Networking Training Media

17. WAYS TO ACHEIVE
Self Help Groups
Aangan Badis
Govt Schemes
Micro Finance
Self Employment

18. 6 S Model for Women Empowerment
AN INITIATIVE BY INDIAN GOVT.

19. Shiksha= Education
Swasthya= Health
Swavlamban= Self Reliance
Samajik Nyay= Justice
Samvedana= Sensitivity
Samanta= Equality

20. They are
strong at
• Synergy
• Cooperation
• Physical Strength
• Untapped Energy
• Multi Tasking
• Innovation
• Closeness with
Nature

21. If due regard given
Women IS Empowered

22. Mother Teresa

23. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

24. Kiran Bedi

25. Kalpana
Chawla

26. Pt. Usha
And so

27. THE LIJJAT PAPAD STORY
• Seven illiterate and poor women borrowed Rs 80 to start a
papad business in 1959
• Its turnover from Rs 6,196 in the first year went up to Rs
300 crore in the next four decades
• 42,000 women on its revolutionary march
• Jaywantiben Popat, one of the women involved with this
phenomenal spirit, was honored at the ET Awards for her
outstanding achievements

28. Let’s join hands
for the bigger cause
Let’s take them
out of the
darkness of life
Individual efforts are
appreciable,
But not sufficient

29. Thank
“जब हैं नारी में शक्ति सारी,
िो
फिर तयों नारी को कहे बेचाारी.”
“नारी का करो सन्मान
िभी बनेगा देश महान”
Empowering
Women
Empowering
Humanity