Women Empowerment-Hands that rock the cradle will rule the world someday! Women being half of the population need to put their equal share in social and economic development. This can only be possible through women empowerment initiatives and giving them equal rights in the society. We all know that gender equality should be considered as a vital concern in the process of development in any society. Women empowerment can play a significant role in the development of sectors such as health and education
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1 WOMEN AND MEDIA * Justice G.N. Ray “There is no chance of the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on one wing.” - Swami Vivekananda The most significant and longest social movement continuing is movement for emancipation of women. Though the primary goal for women empowerment is to improve the quality of life of women but it has also deep ramifications
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The following are the aspect of women empowerment which most vital prerequisite of women achievement of individual and collective empowerment. (a) Women who increase their control over their work at home and outside the home in advantageous position for achieving empowerment. The mutual support in work setting in and outside home is playing an important role to women empowerment through out the work. (b) Women can become independent in their families and empowered in various social settings
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Women Empowerment - A reality or Myth The Government of India had ushered in the new millennium by declaring the year 2001 as ’Women’s Empowerment Year’ to focus on a vision ’where women are equal partners like men’. The most common explanation of ’women’s empowerment’ is the ability to exercise full control over one’s actions. The last decades have witnessed some basic changes in the status and role of women in our society. There has been shift in policy approaches from the concept of ’welfare’
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Quote from a women from a village from Rajasthan ``I want to live in dignity‚ I do not want to be reduced to a state of helplessness where there is no respect for me as a human being - yes‚ that’s what I want‚ I want to live in dignity.’’ According to the village women‚ to live in dignity means fulfilment of basic needs like clean water‚ toilets‚ fuel‚ food and house; education‚ freedom of speech‚ clean environment‚ freedom from violence‚ justice‚ society where men and women are treated equally;
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times‚ women have been treated as second rate citizens of all across the globe. This situation is almost same evrywhere irrespective of the developed countries or the developing countries. Women have been relegated to secondary position despite the fact that they constitute about half the world’s population today. This situation has caused immense loss to their self-respect and dignity. But now the perspective of the society has changed and a general thinking to work for the empowerment of women is being
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The Empowerment of Women Most men view themselves as being the superior life-form in society. They justify this belief by saying that they are stronger and more capable; thus‚ making them more qualify for the more important roles in society. They place themselves on pedestals and force women to believe in their own inferiority to men and their incapability to excel educationally‚ politically‚ economically‚ and domestically. But the truth is that women will eventually advance in all these areas
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"When women are the advisor‚ the Lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it and if it succeeds‚ they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if fails‚ they generously give herself the whole".- Louisa May Alcott India today is at the cusp of a paradigm change in its growth and its position in the world. We (both men and women) must act decisively to capture this opportunity. We need to think big
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Women empowerment “No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you; we are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah‚ 1944 Women empowerment refers broadly to the expansion of freedom of choice and action to shape one’s life. It implies control over resources
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Women in the Vedas and the Puranas: Empowered or Not? Dr. S.R.Ivaturi Reader in Sanskrit SRR & CVR Govt. College Vijayawada There has been a divided opinion regarding the position of women in the Vedic and Puranic ages. According to many scholars the Vedas accord a position of importance to women. There was considerable freedom enjoyed by them in matters of marriage‚ education etc. William Durant sums up the position of the Vedic woman thus: "Women enjoyed far greater freedom in the
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