Empowering Women Rebuilding the Society

To awaken the people, it is the wo manpower who essential be awakened. Once she is on the move, The family moves, the village moves, the nation moves. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.Empowerment is multifaceted & group A multidimensional concept. It is the process by which the powerless gain ampleer keep in line over the circumstances of their lives. It includes control over resources (physical, human, intellectual, financial) and ideology (beliefs, values, and attitudes), decision reservation in home, community, guild and nation and to gain power to empower herself. It operator greater Self confidence and an inner transformation of ones consciousness that en equals one to overcome external barriers to accessing resources or changing tralatitious ideologies.And to a fault it does not mean to give them power to dominate others or use power to establish their superiority over others. Empowerment comes from inner(a), from the individuals themselves, it cannot be granted by others. An e ducated woman knows her responsibility towards their family and indian lodge more than a man. In reality women empowerment meant to empower herself not to overpower men. Usually empowerment for women involves opening up more opportunities, greater access to and control over resources and equal betrothal with men in decision-making.Our club can be viewed as a wall and men & women are analogous to brick and concrete respectively. Women participation in our society has significantly increased since last decades. Their participation is crucial and desirable similarly to build a peaceful society. There are innumerable hurdles in the women empowerment process. Besides all these beautiful data, the status of women is windlessness not that to which it is meant for. There are still a lot to do for their empowerment.The cases of child marriage, deteriorating maternity rate, anaemic pregnancies, eve teasing, molestation, harassment, rape, exploitation, trafficking, Domestic violence, h uman righteousness infringement, lax judiciary process to punish the perpetrators, trafficking, unawareness of basic rights etcetera are some of alarming issues that a modern woman confronts, when goes tabu of the home and so many more are such(prenominal) an enrolment of non-social impediments which are still prevailing in an alarming rate.Various steps sustain been retainn by the government to prevent such abuses and to empower women. iniquitous laws against sati, dowry, female infanticide and foeticide, eve teasing, rape, immoral trafficking and other offences relating to women stool been enacted in addition to civil laws like the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939, the Hindoo Marriage Act 1955 and other Matrimonial enactments. The Prevention of Domestic power Act has been passed in 2005. A National Commission for Women (NCW) has been set up.Other measures by the government include provision of reservation in representation and development, parceling for the welf are of women in the five year plans, provision of subsidized contribute facilities and so on. The year 2001 has been declared as the women empowerment year by the Government of India and 24th January as the National Girl Child Day. Women participation in all levels of governance is essential for their empowerment and for making the society more humane.Women in India now participate in all activities such as regime, sports, education, media, art and culture, service sectors, science and technology, etc. Indira Gandhi who served as fix minister of India for an aggregate period of 15 years is the worlds longest serving women prime minister and the influence of women in politics is at its apex in the present context strongly support by the incumbent president of India Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, incumbent Speaker of Lok-Sabha Mira Kumar, incumbent railroad track minister Mamta Banerji and leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj & Sonia Gandhi leader of the one policy-making party.Be sides these names of women holding major authorities in the politics, the other field are also have women ascendants like Indira Nooyi CEO of PepsiCo, Chanda Koochar CEO of ICICI bank, Shikha Sharma of axis bank and so on. The constitution of India guarantees to all Indian women equality (Article 14), no discrimination by the state (Article 15(1)), equality of opportunity (Article 16) and equal give birth for equal work (Article 39(d)).In addition it al number ones special provisions to be do by the state in favour of women and children (Article 15(3)), renounces practices derogatory to the dignity of women (Article 51(A)(e)) and also allows for the provisions to be made by the state for securing just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief (Article 42). Man and woman being encomiastic physically, emotionally and morally and there is no scope for comparison.One has no innovation without the other. They are interdependent. Together their life is whole and meaningf ul. Each has their own duties, roles and responsibilities. The eighth of March is Womens Day. A day to celebrate women and all they have accomplished in their struggle for independence, equal rights and opportunities. It is also the day to learn appreciation to all the women dear to you.The 108th Constitutional Amendment Bill, popularly known as the Womens Reservation Bill which seeks to reserve one-third of seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies has been a highlight in the recent generation & it is highly appreciated in the direction of women empowerment. It was passed in the Rajya Sabha on March 9th 2010 one day after international womens day. Though puff up intended, it can have little, if any, tangible consequences for the real empowerment of women since it does not name upon the core issues which plague them.The solution must envisage a two-pronged attack, on the one hand, on tradition which is responsible for assigning a low status for wom en in the society and on the other hand, the outrages perpetrated against them. The proposed Prevention of intimate Harassment of Women at Workplace Bill, 2010 is a good move in that direction. Mass campaigns need to be organized especially in the villages in favour of survival of the female child and provision of human rights for her, including education and health.It is essential to dispel the ghosts of the past and place women on an equal undercoat with men in order to pave the way for their empowerment, social, economic and educational. The Chinmaya countrified Training Centre (CRTC) was founded by, Swami Chinmayananda, a revered Hindu spiritual leader in one of the most depressed areas of Himachal Pradesh. Sustainable development he believed was only possible if local women, generally belonging to lower castes and tribes, were able to take charge of their own lives and development.Empowering women and thus rebuilding the society would take the nation on a path of greater deve lopment as Swami Vivekananda says, Countries and Nations which do not respect women have never become great nor will ever be in future.