NAME : PRIYANKA SEN ROLL NO .: 31 4 TH SEMESTER

1. NAME: PRIYANKA SENROLL NO.: 314TH SEMESTER WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

2. DEFINITION • Empowermentis the process of increasing the authority and responsibility of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. • Women empowerment is the empowerment of women which helps them to take their own decisions by breaking all limitations of the society and family. • Women empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual,political, social, educational, gender or economic strength of individuals and communities of women.

3. Why need of women empowerment? “Women are worshipped as goddess in India, but not given her true position.” SudhaMurty The main problems faced by women in past and present • Gender discrimination • Women education • Female infanticide • Dowry • Marriage in same cast and child marriage • Atrocities on women: Raped, kicked, killed, subdued and humiliated almost daily

4. Shocking facts: • According to 2018, UNDP report on Gender Inequality Index, India has ranked 130 among 189 countries • It predicts : An Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than the boy child • A woman is raped once in every 20 minutes • Only 29% of the national work force is female • Only 26% of women have access to formal credit

8. Women’s empowerment has five components: • Women’s sense of self-worth • Their right to have and to determine choices • Their right to have access to opportunities and resources • Their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home • And their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally

9. Hindrance of women empowerment : • Family hindrance • Educational hindrance • Health related hindrance • Economical hindrance • Political hindrance • Lack of security • Social and religious hindrance: child marriage, dowry, divorce, widowed

10. Holistic approach to empowerment:

11. Ways to empower women: • Providing education • Self employment and self help groups • Providing minimum need like nutrition, health, sanitation, housing • Society should change the mentality towards the word ‘women’ • Encouraging women to develop in their fields they are good at and make a carrier

12. Ways to empower women: • Changes in women’s mobility and social interaction • Changes in women’s labour patterns • Changes in women’s access to and control over resources • Changes in women’s control over decision making

13. Role of education in women empowerment: • Increases self pride and self confidence • Increases decision making power • Increases access to employment and makes women economically independent • Decreases maternal mortality rate, infanticide, female foeticide rate • An empowered woman is more capable of taking care of child (health, education and overall development) • Increases leadership qualities (political and administrative leadership)

14. Women empowerment programmes: • Swayamsidha (Indira MahilaYojna) • Swa-Shakti Project • Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) • Swalamban • Crèches/Day care Centres for the Children of Working and Ailing Mothers • Hostels of working women • Swadhar • RashtriyaMahilaKosh (RMK) • BetiBachaoBetiPadhao Project

15. UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women):It is the women’s fund at the United Nations that provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. Their 4 strategic areas are-1. reducing feminized poverty2. ending violence against women3. reversing spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls4. achieving gender equality in democratic governance