This document discusses women empowerment in India. It provides background information on the female population in India and common crimes against women. It then discusses the occupations of women, inspirational Indian women, and the causes of social issues facing women related to health, such as nutrition, menstruation, reproductive health, and maternal health. The document outlines ways to empower women through mobility, decision making, self-employment, and addressing their basic needs. It also discusses the challenges and obstacles to women's empowerment, as well as the various legal rights and government schemes that aim to promote empowerment. Counseling activities that can be conducted to empower women are also listed.

1. Ms. SEJAL SUCHAL
Lecturer,
Community Health Nursing
MBNC, Uka Tarasadia University

2. INTRODUCTION

3. TOTAL POPULATION
OF INDIA- 1.4 Billion
FEMALE POPULATION IN
INDIA- 58.6 Crore

4. cruelty by
husbands or
relatives, 38.4
Dowry death, 2.6
Dowry Prohibition
Act, 3.5
Immoral Traffic
Act, 0.8
Others, 0.1
Rape, 10.9
Kidnapping and
Abduction, 16.8
Insult to
modest
y of
women,
4.1
Assault on women
with an intent to
outrage her
modesty, 22.9
Source: NCRB
CRIME AGAINST WOMEN -2013
Percentage Distribution.
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6. SOCIAL
ISSUES

7. OCCUPATION OF WOMEN
Military
Scientist
Business
Pilot
Engineer
Teacher
Almost everywhere

8. INSPIRABLE WOMEN OF INDIA

9. CAUSES OF SOCIAL ISSUES

10. BALANCE
DIET
HEALTH
MENSTR
UAL
HYGIENE
REPRODUC
TIVE
HEALTH
PROBLEM
MATERNAL
HEALTH
DISEASE
CONDITION
PHYSICAL HEALTH OF WOMEN

11. WOMENEMPOWERMENT
Women empowerment means Strengthening or
empowering the women’s biological, socio economic,
spiritual and psychological status in the society.

12. “Women empowerment is the process by which
women strengthen their capacity individually
and collectively to identify, understand and
overcome gender discrimination, thus taking
control of their lives.”
-Arrow (1995)

13. Need for women empowerment
Decision
Making Power
Freedom of
Movement
Access to
Education
Access to
Employment
Domestic
Violence

14. Obstacles of Women Empowerment
•Gender discrimination
•Lack of Education
•Female Infanticide
•Financial Constraints
•Family Responsibility
•Low Mobility

15. Obstacles of Women Empowerment
• Low ability to bear Risk
• Low need for achievement
• Absence of ambition for the achievement
• Social status
• Dowry Marriage in same caste and child marriage

16. Mobility
and social
interaction
Labour
patterns
Access and
control
over
resources
Control
over
decision
making
Self-
employmen
t and self-
help group
Minimum
needs
Change the
mentality
towards
the word
women
Good
career
Way to empower the
women

17. Challenges on women empowerment
Education
Poverty
Health and
Safety
Professional
Inequality
Morality and
Inequality
Household
Inequality

18. Level of empowerment
welfare
Access
Conscintization
Participation
Control

19. RIGHTS OF WOMEN
The right to work as a human being.
The right to the same employment opportunities, including application of
the same criteria for selection.
The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right to
promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and right
to receive vocational training and retraining.
The right to equal remuneration.
The right of social security as well as the right to paid leave.
The right to protection of health and to safety.

20. AREA OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
WOMEN
Economic
social
Cultural
Political

21. Legal Rights of Women
• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (2005)
• Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (1956)
• Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act (1986)
• Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act (1987)
• Dowry Prohibition Act (1961)
• Maternity Benefit Act (1961)
• Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (1971)
• Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques
(Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act (1994)
• Equal Remuneration Act (1976)
• Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act (1939)
• Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act
(1986)

22. Legal Rights of Women
• Family Courts Act (1984)
• Indian Penal Code (1860)
• Code of Criminal Procedure (1973)
• Indian Christian Marriage Act (1872)
• Legal Services Authorities Act (1987)
• Hindu Marriage Act (1955)
• Hindu Succession Act (1956)
• Minimum Wages Act (1948)
• Mines Act (1952) and Factories Act (1948)
• National Commission for Women Act (1990)
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)
Act (2013)

23. Important Women Empowerment Schemes in India
Beti Bachao, Beti
Padhao Scheme
Women helpline
scheme
Working women
hostel
Support to training
and employment
programme (STEP)
for women
Swadhar greh
scheme
Rajiv Gandhi
national crèche
scheme
Indira Gandhi
matriva sahyog
yojna

24. Important Women Empowerment Schemes in India
One stop centre
scheme
Mahila police
volunteer
Mahila e Haat
Mukhya mantri
Narishakti yojna
Pradhan Mantri
Matru Vandana
Yojna
National mission for
empowerment of
women
Karate training for
girl

25. Women empowerment activity
Information
Guidance
Counseling

26. COUNSELING ACTIVITY
Body Image, Values
and Value
Clarification
Self Esteem
Vision and Goal
Setting
Decision Making
and Assertiveness
Communication
Gender and Gender
Roles
Negotiation and
Refusal Skills
Personal Financial
Management
Migration
Trafficking and
Smuggling
Trafficking Tricks,
Bondage, Rituals
and Routes
Life of the
Trafficked Girls and
Consequence of
Trafficking
Leadership

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