JASPREET KAUR SODHI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Women empoWerment

Some Global Eye Openers

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

Some Global Eye Openers

Why need of womenWhy need of women empowerment?empowerment?

““Women are worshipped as goddess in Women are worshipped as goddess in INDIA, But not given her true position.” INDIA, But not given her true position.”

Threats to them are many…Threats to them are many…

RAPE

She is just 15 yrs, her son is 18 months old

FEMALE FOETICIDE

Empowerment of Women

Shiksha= EducationSwasthya= HealthSwavlamban= Self RelianceSamajik Nyay= JusticeSamvedana= SensitivitySamta= Equality

AN INITIATIVE BY INDIAN GOVT.

Women Empowerment Programmes • Swayamsidha

• Swa-Shakti Project

• Support to Training and employment programme for Women (STEP)

• Swalamban

• Creches/ Day care Centers for the Children of working and Ailing Mothers

• Hostels for working women

• Swadhar

• Rashtriya Mahila kosh (RMK)

Swayamsidha:

MDG GOAL 3

• Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women.

TARGET

1. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015

The education to gir l

chi ld is a Key to

women empowerment

THE GREAT INDIAN WOMEN

Mother TeresaMother Teresa

Indira Priyadarshini GandhiIndira Priyadarshini Gandhi

Kiran BediKiran Bedi

Kalpana Kalpana ChawlaChawla

Pt. Usha Pt. Usha

`Nari Shakti` (woman power) was the theme for Republic Day parade this year where Obama was the chief guest, led by wing commander

Pooja Thakur

Positive Stories…

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 upto Rs 300 crore in

the next four decades

• 42,000 women on its revolutionary

march

When the woman is happy, the home is happy

When the home is happy, the society is happy and

When the society is happy, the state is happy and

When the state is happy, there will be peace in the

country and it will develop at greater pace.”