women empowerment
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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.
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
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)
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
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