WomenEmpowerment

Submitted By- Jastinder Pal SinghMBA (2015-17)15421163

School of Management Studies, Punjabi University Patiala

Why need of women empowerment?

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

The main problems faced by women in past and present

Gender discriminationWomen educationFemale infanticide DowryMarriage in same caste and child marriageAtrocities on women: With their age, they have been raped, kicked, killed, subdued & humiliated almost daily.

HARASSMENT

EXPLOITATIONDISCRIMINATION

Threats to them are many…

• The physical, sexual and psychological harm or

suffering to women. • Includes threat of such an act, coercing or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in public or

private life.

Lack of education,Financial constraint,Family responsibility,Low mobility,Low ability to bear risk,Low need for achievement,Absence of ambition for the

achievement,Social status

What are the main problems?

Begging for Food

She lost her children out of Hunger and Poverty

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

The lost Childhood….

School days…… Child Labour

It is well known that women and children work in huge numbers in bidi-rolling, agarbatti-rolling, bangle making, weaving, brassware, leather, crafts and other industries.

Yet, only 3 % of these women are recorded as laborers.

CORRPUTION

They also suffer from…

Maternal Mortality

Women Trafficking

Malnutrition

Exploitative Practices

Child Marriage

Dowry

Gender Violence Child Labor

Eve TeasingSexual Harassment

Family Abuse& a lot more…

 • 1 Crime Committed Against Women

every 3 Minutes• 1 Rape case every 29 Minutes• 1 Sexual Harassment case every 53

Minutes• 1 Dowry Death case every 77

Minutes• 1 Cruelty by Husband and Relatives

case every 9 Minutes 

The crime clock maintained by the NCRB reveals a shocking figure of:

60 % of the Girls are married before the age of 16

Nearly 60% of the married girls bear children before they are 18

125,000 women die from pregnancy and related causes every year

Maternal mortality in India is the 2nd highest in the world

Specific legislation on gender based issues

• Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (28 of 1961)

• Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act, 1979

• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

• Commission of Sati Prevention Act 1987 (3 of 1988)

• Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986

• Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act,• Pre-conception and Pre-natal

Diagnostic Technique Act, 1994• Medical Termination of Pregnancies

Act (1971)• Supreme Court guidelines on the

prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace. (1997)

STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE

EducationResearch/Documentat

ionCampai

gns

Networking Training Media

WAYS TO ACHEIVESelf Help Groups

Aangan Badis

Govt Schemes

Micro Finance

Self Employment

6 S Model for Women Empowerment

AN INITIATIVE BY INDIAN GOVT.

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

They are strong at

• Synergy

• Cooperation

• Physical Strength

• Untapped Energy

• Multi Tasking

• Innovation

• Closeness with Nature

If due regard given Women IS Empowered

Mother Teresa

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

Kiran Bedi

Kalpana Chawla

Pt. Usha And so many….

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 up to Rs 300 crore in the next four decades

• 42,000 women on its revolutionary march• Jaywantiben Popat, one of the women involved

with this phenomenal spirit, was honored at the ET Awards for her outstanding achievements

Let’s join hands for the bigger causeLet’s take

them out of the darkness

of life

Individual efforts are appreciable,

But not sufficient

Thank you

“ जब हैं नारी में शक्ति सारी,  तो

फि�र क्यों नारी को कहे बेचारी.”

“ नारी का करो सन्मान ”तभी बनेगा देश महान

Empowering Women

Empowering Humanity