Women empowerment

2nd yr Bsc Nursing, - Community Health Nursing- Women Empowerment

1. By, Mrs Jinchu Paul
Faculty of Nursing

2. CONTENT
1.EMPOWERMENT
2.WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
3.STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIAN SOCIETY-HISTORICAL VIEW
4.NEED OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
5.WAY TO ACHIEVE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
6.COMPONENTS
7.TOOLS
8.WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES
9.CONSTRAINTS IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
10.CHANGES OF AN EMPOWERED WOMEN
11.PROJECTS FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
12.PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
13.CONCLUSION

3. Empowerment
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-
determination in people and in communities. This
enables them to represent their interests in a
responsible and self-determined way, acting on
their own authority.
Women's empowerment is the process of empowering
women. It may be defined in several ways, including
accepting women's viewpoints or making an effort to seek
them, raising the status of women through education,
awareness, literacy, and training.

4. Women Empowerment
Definition
Process by which women gain power and
control over their own lives and acquire the
ability to make strategic choices.

5. Historical view
STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIAN SOCIETY
“In order to awaken people, it is the people who have to be awakened, once
she moves, the country moves and thus we build the Indian of tomorrow.”
Said by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
• India is now in transition age –present century is the “Knowledge Century
Era”. • A knowledge driven generation will be an asset for the progress and
development of the nation.
• To achieve and sustain the high growth rates, access in education should
be open for entire population without any discrimination. • As women are the
dynamic promoters of social transformation. Their empowerment and
education is must.

6. STATUS IN ANCIENT INDIA
During this period, women had high social and religious status.
There is sufficient evidence in Vedic literature that in Vedic period
women were imparted Vedic education and used to take part in
religious rites.
They were also authors of certain Vedic hymns.
Women of that age were capable of learning and understanding
philosophical doctrines.
In Vedic age women remain unmarried for higher studies.
The women education has been highly appreciated in Atharva
Veda.
Manu emphasized that it was the duty of parents to give her
daughters integral education. However, there was a gradual
decline in female education during later Vedic age.

7. STATUS IN BRITISH PERIOD
* In that time women were considered a completely inferior, means
inferior to male having no significance, no personality. They were
almost uneducated.
Due to efforts of social reformers the status of women was
improved, which recognized them in their own rights.
• Hindu Dharma Shasta's and customs had already paved the way for
their complete subordination to male through deprivation of
property rights, worship of husband as Gods, dowry and sati
system.
• Social reformers tried to give equal importance to women with
men therefore in this period only many legislative enactment has
been enforced by legislators for protection of women life. • Act of
Sati (abolish) 1829, The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act 1856, The
Child Restriction Act 1929

8. STATUS IN MODERN INDIA
•Position and starts of today’s woman in India is
considerably changed in modern Indian society.
A country or a community cannot be considered
civilized where woman is not honoured.
Indian laws are being need without any discrimination
against woman. As a result Indian woman enjoying high
position in our society.

9. Modern Indian woman today occupy high ranking
pests live I.A.S., I.P.S., Defence services, participate
in various sports. • Woman of recent times like
Mother Teresa, Vijay Laxmi Pandit, M.S. Subhalaxmi,
LataMangeskar our ex-president Smt. Prathibha
Patil etc. have achieved international fame.
Women have also achieved high fame in the areas of
literature, music and acting. More over woman are
joining the field of science and technology also.

10. NEED OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
“Women are worshiped as goddess in India, but
not given her true position.” • Women are
deprived of: –Decision making Power –
Freedom of Movement –Access to Education –
Access to Employment –Exposure to Media –
Domestic Violence.

11. WAY TO ACHIEVE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Self Help Group
Angan Badis
Government Schemes
Micro Finance
Self Employment

12. Components
Women’s empowerment has five components:
Women’s sense of self-worth;
Their right to have and to determine choices;
Their right to have access to opportunities and
resources;
Their right to have power to control their own lives,
both within and outside the home;
Their ability to influence the direction of social change
to create a more just social and economic order,
nationally and internationally.

13. Tools for empowering women
1.Education
2.Training, awareness raising.
3.Building self-confidence.
4.Expansion of choices.
5.Increased access to and control over resources.
6.Actions to transform the structures and
institutions that reinforce and perpetuate gender
discrimination and inequality.

14. Women's Empowerment Principles
Created in a collaboration between the UN Global Compact and UN Women,
theWomen’s Empowerment Principlesare used to empower women in the
marketplace, workplace and community.
The seven Principles are:
1.Create high-level corporate leadership for gender
equality
2.Treat all people fairly at work, respecting and
supporting non-discrimination and human rights
3.Ensure the health, wellbeing and safety of all
workers, whether male or female.

15. 4)Promote education, training and professional
development for women
5) Implement supply chain, marketing practices
and enterprise development that empower
women
6) Champion equality through community
initiatives and advocacy
7) Measure and report publicly on progress to
create gender equality.

16. CONSTRAINTS IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Lack of education
Traditional view limit participation
Financial constraints
Family responsibilities
Low mobility
Low ability to bear risk
Low Social status
Conflicts among women’s groups

17. CHANGES OF AN EMPOWERED WOMEN
Improves personal knowledge
Self-defining power
Authenticity
Creativity
Physical strength
Equality
Mutuality in relationships
Economic independence
Freedom from oppression
Having political power in society

18. PROJECTS FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
The UNcame out with a set of goals called the Sustainable
Development Goals, or SDGs, to help make the world a better
place. • Of the 17, the fourth goal works to allow access to
education for all people alike. A large effort has been made to
include women in schools to better their education. • The fifth
goal focuses on empowering women and girls to achieve gender
equality through equal access to various types of opportunities
(health care, education, work, etc.).
There are also some prominent non-profits that help empower
women: –She Should Run –Girls Not Brides –The MalalaFund -
Women in Defense-Women for Women International -Every
Mother Counts.

19. Programs & schemes for women
empowerment

20. CONCLUSION
• Women represent half of 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. • The dream of women empowerment
shall not be fulfillunless they are empowered to play equal
decisive and appropriate role in the family, which is the basic
unit of empowerment.

21. Thank you for reading