Women empowerment

WOMEN
IMPOWERPMENT IN
INDIA

WELL
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WELCOME :

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“WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN
INDIA”

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INTRODUCTION :

Women Empowerment refers to
increasing the spiritual, political, social,
educational, gender, or economic
strength of individuals and communities
of women.

Women’s empowerment in India is heavily
dependent on many different variables that
include geographical location (urban/rural),
educational status, social status (caste and
class), and age.
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NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMNENT:

WOMEN ARE DEPRIVED OF:

• Decision Making Power
• Freedom of Movement
• Access to Education
• Access to Employment
• Exposure to Media
• Domestic Violence

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DECISION MAKING POWER:
• Among those who have earnings, more women (1 in 5) than men
(1 in 18) do not have a major say in how their own earnings are
used and fewer women (about 7 in 10) than men (about 9 in 10
men) have a major say in how their spouses' earnings are used.
• Women who earn about the same as their husbands are more
likely to have a major say in the use of their husbands’ earnings
than both women who earn less than their husbands and who
earn more than their husbands.
• Less than two in three currently married women participate,
alone or jointly, indecisions about their own health care, large
household purchases, purchases for daily need, and visits to her
family and relatives.
• The number of decisions women make jointly varies positively
with education and nonlinearly with wealth; and
• For women, having earnings that they control is associated
with greater participation in decisions; however, having
earnings without a major say in their use is negatively
associated with the number of decisions made jointly and,
unexpectedly, positively associated with the number of
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FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT:

• Women’s freedom of movement is
severely curtailed: only one in three
are allowed to go alone to the market,
the health center, and outside the
community.
• Women face a large number of
hurdles in accessing health care: of the
eight specified hurdles, one in four
among all women and 47% of women
in the lowest wealth quintile face
three or more hurdles.
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ACCESS TO EDUCATION:

• Children’s school attendance
 Only two-thirds of girls and three-fourths of boys age
6-17 years are attending school. The sex ratio of
children attending school is 889 girls per 1,000 boys.
• Literacy and educational attainment among adults
 Forty-one percent of women age 15-49 have never
been to school.
 Educational attainment remains very low: even
among the 20-29 age group, only 27% of women have
10 or more years of education.
 The percentage of ever-married women with 10 or
more years of education has risen very slowly from
11% in NFHS-1 to 17% in NFHS-3.
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ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT:

• Women age 15-49 are about half as likely as men in the same age
group to be employed: 43% vs. 87%.
• The relationship of employment and wealth for women suggests
that, for many women, employment is largely a result of
economic necessity.
• Even with controls for education, age, and wealth, marriage is
negatively associated with a woman’s likelihood of being
employed and is positively associated with a man’s likelihood
of being employed.
• Most employed women work for someone else, away from
home,and continuously throughout the year; about one in three
women do not receive monetary compensation for their work or
receive at least part of their payment in kind.
• Most employed women work in agriculture; only 7% work in
professional,technical, or managerial occupations.
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EXPOSURE TO MEDIA:
• Women have lower access to media than men
in every age group.
• About 71 per cent of women are exposed to
media as compared to 88 per cent in case of
men.
• Twenty nine per cent of women do not have
access to media regularly. Since it is an
important source of empowerment, greater
proportion of women without having access
to media reflects the relatively
disadvantageous position of women in
relation to men with regards to
empowerment.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
• About two in five currently married women age 15-49
have experienced spousal violence in their current
marriage, and among women who have ever experienced
such violence, more than two in three have experienced
violence in the past year.
• Recent experience of spousal violence varies little by
marital duration, but, as expected, ever experience of
spousal violence increases with marital duration.
• Higher education and wealth consistently lower
women’s risk of spousal violence;and husbands’
consumption of alcohol and having a mother who was
beaten by her spouse significantly increase the risk.
• Although women who agree that wife beating is
justified have a higher prevalence of violence, one out of
three women who do not agree that wife beating is
justified have also experienced violence.
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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;
and
• Changes in women's control
over decision-making.
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SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT :

• Political empowerment of women is only a part of the
overall mainstreaming of women.
• Education of women means greater awareness of
their role in society.
• Awareness of their rights, better knowledge of
housekeeping and better performance of their roles
as a housewife and mother.
• Education and training have opened up the avenues
of employment and self-employment in the organized
sector. As never before women are working in
diverse fields as doctors, engineers, IAS officers, IPS
officers, bank officials and in a wide range of sectors
in the unorganized sector. In agriculture, most of the
operations are run by women.
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ROLE OF NGO’s :
• Non-governmental organizations are
playing a significant role in the
empowerment of disadvantages women.
Just a few years after Independence, the
Government set up the Central Social
Welfare Board, an apex body of the
voluntary sector that aids more than 10,000
NGOs across the country, helping women
stand on their own through such programme
as socio-economic programme, vocational
training and other similar programmes.
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ROLE OF GOVERNMENT :
• The Department of Women and Child Development has been
implementing special programmes for the holistic development and
empowerment of women with major focus to improve their socio-
economic status. There has been policy shifts from time to time based
on the shifts in emphasis.
• The year 2001 was declared as “Women’s Empowerment Year” to
bring greater focus on the programmes for women.
• A programme of Support to Training-cum-Employment for Women
(STEP) was launched in 1987 to strengthen and improve the skills for
employment opportunities for women below the poverty line, in
traditional sectors of agriculture, small animal husbandry etc where
women are employed on a large scale..
• Swayamsidha launched in March 2001 and the Swa-Shakti Project
(earlier known as Rural Women’s Development and Empowerment
Project), launched in October 1998.

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CONCLUSION :

Women represent half the
world’s population, and gender
inequality exists in every nation
on the planet. Until women are
given the same opportunities
that men are, entire societies
will be destined to perform
below their true potentials .The
greatest need of the hour is
change of social attitude to
women.
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REFERENCE :

• http://dspace.nehu.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/1/2729/1/Women
%20Empowerment%20in%20India.pdf
• http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/OD57/OD57.
• http://www.prabhaiasips.com/essaymodel.html
• http://www.publishyourarticles
.net/knowledge-hub/essay/an-essay-on-the-empowerment-of-
india.html
• http://pib.nic
.in/feature/feyr2000/faug2000/f090820001.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowerment
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_India

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THANK YOU

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