women empowerment ppt

women empowerment

1. ` welcome

2. Women Empowerment `

3. In the ancient Indian society women were adored and worshiped as goddesses. However in the middle age of women got down to A great extent. Women are considered in the society only to perform duties like bring up children, caring every family member, and other household activities. There is old and traditional faith of people coming out for years that men are for thy field where as women are only for the home. Now a days women are breaking all the barriers of social issues and problem against them in the society. INTRODUCTION

4. EMPOERMENT is the process of increasing the authority and responsibility of individual or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. DEFINITION OF EMPOWERMENT

5. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT refers to increasing the spiritual , political, social, or economic strength of women. Its often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities. DEFINITION OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

6. Women’s sense of self worth. Right to have and to determine choices. Right to have access to opportunities and resources. Right to have the power to control their own lives, both with in and outside the home. Ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. COMPONENTS OF WOMEN EMPOWERMNT

7. Total Indian population is 1,358,670,486, as Thursday October/2018/25 based on the latest united nations estimates. Women population, in Indian was reported at 48.18% in 2017. Total no. of female in India 652,936,160(65.2 cror) 15 October 2018. Total male population in India 697,221,325(69.7 cror) 15 October 2018. Sex ratio 945 females per 1000 males on 15 October 2018 INDIAN POPULATION

8. Enhance self esteem and self confidence in women Build a positive image of women by recognizing their contributions to the society and economy. Develop in them an ability to think critically. Foster decision making and action through collective process. CONCEPT

9. Enable them to make informal choices in areas like education employment and health. Ensure equal participation in the development process Provide information knowledge and skill for economic independence. Enhance access to legal literacy and information related to their and entitlement in the society with a view to enhance their participation on an equal footing in all areas Conti…

10. Next generation will be empowered because of her. If women will be empowered she will not be a burden on anyone. Financial burden of man can be shared with her support. Family can be more strong because of both working hands. When financial problem will be shared than result of conflict. ADVANTAGES

11. Selective abortion and female infanticide. Sexual harassment. Dowry and bride burning. Disparity in education Domestic violence Child marriages Inadequate nutrition Low status in the family Status of widows ISSUES AND PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN IN INDIA .

12. GOAL : To bring about the advancement, development and empowerment of women. Objectives: C reating and environment through positive economic and social policies for full development of women to enable them to realize their full potential. Equal access to participate and decision making of women in social, political and economic life of the nation. Equal access to women to health care, quality education to all level, career an vocational guidance ,employment equal remunerate occupation health and safety . National policy 2001

13. Building and strengthen partnership with civil society, particularly women’s organization’s Strengthening legal system aimed at elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. Elimination of discrimination and all forms of violence against women and the girl child. Mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development process Changing societal attitudes and community practices by active participation and involvement of both men and women. Conti….

14. Features To create society with women working as equal partners in all spheres of life. To develop a framework to ensure equal rights and opportunities for women Health and education of women have been kept a priority in the proposed draft the draft has proposed to improve access to pre-primary education NEW NATIONAL POLICY FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT (2016)

15. To carryout skill development and provide equal employment opportunities To provide suitable benefits related to maternity and child care services To address all forms of violence against women. To improve child sex ratio To prevent trafficking at source, transit and destinatation areas for effective monitoring of the networks. Conti...

16. JUDICIAL LEGAL SYSTEM: Legal judicial system will be more responsive and gender sensitive to women's needs, especially in cases of domestic violence and personal assault. New laws will be enacted and existing laws reviewed to ensure that justices is quick and the punished of the offence. The full participation of all stakeholders including community and religious leaders, the policy would aim to encourage changes in personal laws such as those related to marriage, divorce, maintenance and guardianship. So as it eliminate discrimination against wome n. POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS

17. DECISION MAKING Women's equality in power sharing and active participation in decision making, including decision making in political process at all level will be ensured for the achievement of the goals of empowerment. Conti…

18. MAIN STREAMING A GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Policies , programs and systems will be established to ensure mainstreaming of women's perspectives in all development process, as catalysts, participants and recipient. Women friendly personnel policies will also be drawn up to encourage women to participate effectively in the developmental process. Conti…

19. Establish high level corporate leadership for gender equality Treat all women and men fairly at work respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination. Ensure the health safety and well-being of all women and men workers Promote education, learning and professional development for women. PRINCIPALS OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

20. 5. Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women. 6. Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy. 7. Measure and public report on progress to achieve gender equality. Conti….

21. Affirm high level support and direct top level policies for gender equality and human rights. Establish company wide goals and targets for gender equality and include progress as a factor in managers performed reviews Engage internal and external stakeholders in the development of company policies, programs and implementation plans that advance equality. Principle 1:Leadership Promote And Gender Equality

22. Pay equal remuneration, including benefits, for work of equal and strive to pay a living wage to all women and men. Ensure that work place policies and practices are free from gender-based discrimination Offer flexible work options, leave and re-entry opportunities to positions of equal pay and status. Support access to child and dependent care by providing services, resources and information to both women and men. Principle 2: Equal Opportunity, Inclusion And Nondiscrimination

23. Establish a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of violence at work, including verbal and physical abuse and prevent sexual harassment. Respect women and men workers rights to time off for medical care and counseling for themselves and their dependents. Train security staff and managers to recognize signs of violence against women and understand laws and company policies on human trafficking, labor and sexual exploitation. Principle 3: health, safety and freedom from violence

24. Ensure equal access to all company- supported education and training programs, including literacy classes, vocational and information technology training. Provide equal opportunity for formal and informal networking and mentoring. Offer opportunities to promote the business case for women's empowerment and the positive impacts of inclusion for men as well as women. Principle 4: Education And Training

25. Expand business relationship with women's owned enterprises, including small businesses and women entrepreneurs. Support gender-sensitive solution to credit and lending barriers Ask business partners an peers to respect the company's commitment to advancing equality and inclusion. Ensure that company products, services and facilities are not for human trafficking and labor or sexual exploitation. Principle 5: Enterprise Development, Supply Chain And Marketing Practices

26. Work with community stakeholders, officials and others to eliminate discrimination and exploitation and open opportunities for women and girls. Promote and recognize women's leadership in and contributions to their communities and ensure sufficient representation f women in any community consultation. Use philanthropy and grant programmes to support company commitment to inclusion, equality and human rights Principle 6: Community Leadership And Engagement

27. Make public the company policies and implementation plan for promoting gender equality. Establish benchmarks that quantify inclusion of women at all levels. Measure and report on progress, both internally and externally, using data disaggregated by gender. Principle 7: Transparency Measuring And Reporting

28. POVERTY ERADICATIONS : * Macro economic policies and poverty eradication programmes will specifically address the needs and problems of women * These will improve implementation of programmes which are already women oriented with special targets for women. Economic Empowerment Of Women

29. Establishment of new and strengthening of existing micro-credit mechanisms and micro finance institution will be undertaken so that the out reach of credit is enhanced . other supportive measures would be taken to ensure adequate flow of credit through financial institution and banks, so that all women below poverty line have easy access to credit MICRO CREDIT:

30. There is a need for re-framing policies for access to employment and quality of employment. Strategies will be designed to enhance the capacity of women and empower them to meet the negative social and economic impacts, which may flow from the globalization process. GLOBALISATION:

31. The programmes for training women in social conservation, social forestry, dairy development and other occupations allied to agriculture like horticulture livestock including small animal husbandry, poultry, fisheries etc. will be expanded to benefit women workers in the agriculture sector. WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE:

32. The important role played by women in electronics, information technology and food processing and agro industry and textiles has been crucial to the development of these sectors . They would be given comprehensive support in terms of labor legislation, social security and other support services to participate in various industrial sectors. WOMEN AND INDUSTRY

33. Support services like child care facilities, including crèches at work place and educational institutions, homes for the aged and the disabled, will provide for women to enable them to participate actively on the development process. SUPPORT SOURCES :

34. This project was started with the aim of making women economically empowered. Delhi commission for women in the year 2000-2001 was to set up pilot projects in collaboration with partner NGO’s for empowering women economically and thus helping prevent crimes against women. The commission tied up with various NGO’s working part of Delhi for formation of SHG. SELF HELP GROUP:

35. SHG is a group formed by the community women, which has specific numbers of members like 15 or 20 in such a group in the poorest women would come together for emergency, disaster, social reasons, economic support to each other have ease of conversation social interaction and economic interaction. SELF HELP GROUP

36. EDUCATION : * Equal access to education for women and girl will be ensured. * Special measures will be take to eliminate discrimination, universal education, eradicate illiteracy, create gender-sensitive educational system, increase enrollment and retention rates of girls, improve occupation/vocation/technical skills. Social Empowerment Of Women

37. Reduce gender gap in secondary and higher education Girls and women belonging to weaker section including the SC/ST/other backward classes/Minorities will be given special focus. Conti…

38. A holistic approach to women health which includes both nutrition and health services will be adopted and special attention will be given to the needs of women and girl at all stages of life cycle . The policy reiterates the national demographic goals for infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate set out in the national population policy 2000. HEALTH:

39. In view of the high risk of malnutrition and diseases the women face at all the three critical stages that is infancy and childhood, adolescent and reproductive phase, focused attention would be paid to meeting the nutritional need of women at all stages of the life cycle. Special efforts should be made to lackle the problem of micro and macro nutrient deficiencies especially amongst women lactating women as it leads to various diseases and disabilities NUTRITION:

40. Special attention should be given to the needs of women in the provision of safe drinking water, sewage disposal, toilet facilities and sanitation with in accessible reach of house holds, especially in rural areas and urban slums. Women participation will be ensured in the planning, delivery and maintenance of such services. DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION:

41. Women's perspectives will be included in housing policies, planning of housing colonies and provision of shelter both in rural and urban areas. Special attention will be given for providing adequate and safe housing and accommodation for women including single women, heads of households, workingwomen, student, apprentices and trainees. HOUSING AND SHELTER:

42. The policy will aim at promoting the program of non-conventional energy resources such as animal dung, crop waste and fuel wood. Women will be involved in spreading the use of solar energy, biogas, smokeless chulahs and other rural application. So as to have a visible impact of these measures' in influencing ecosystem and in changing the lifestyle of rural women. ENVIRONMENT:

43. Measures and programs will be undertake to provide the specially disadvantaged groups with special assistance. These groups include women in extreme poverty, destitute women, women in conflict situation, women affected by national calamities, women in less developed regions, the disabled widows, elderly women, single women in difficult circumstances, women heading households, those displaced from employement , migrant, women who are victims of marital violence, deserted women and prostitutes . WOMEN IN DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES:

44. All forms of discrimination against the girl child and violation of her rights shall be eliminated by undertaking strong measures both preventive and punitive with in and outside the family. These would relate specifically to strict enforcement of laws against prenatal sex selection and the practice of female feticide, female infanticide. Child marriage, child abuse and child prostitution etc. RIGHTS OF THE GIRL CHILD:

45. Removal of discrimination in the treatment of the girl with in the family an outside and projection of a positive image of the girl will be actively fostered. There will be special emphasis on the needs of the girl child and earmarking of substantial investments in the areas relating to food and nutrition, and education and in vocational education conti …

46. Media will be used to portray images consistent with human dignity of girls and women. The policy will specifically to strive to remove demeaning, degrading and negative conventional stereotypical images of women and violence against women. Private sectors partners and media networks will be involved at all levels to ensure equal access for women particularly in the area of information and communication technologies. MASS MEDIA:

47. The media would be encouraged to develop codes of conduct, professional guidelines and other self regulatory mechanisms to remove gender stereotypes and promote balanced portrayals of women and men. Cont…

48. Reforms have been designed in various domains like marriage, succession, domestic violence, sexual offence, at work place, prostitution and some miscellaneous relevant areas to safe guard women. Enabling Legislative Reforms:

49. Some of the notable legislations are as follows: Equal Remuneration Act of 1976 provides for equal pay to men and women for equal works. Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 amended in 1976 provides the right to repudiate a child marriage before attaining maturity whether the marriage has been consummated or not. Marriage (Amendment Act ) 2001 amended the Hindu marriage act, special marriage act, parsi applications for maintenance ; the ceiling limit for claiming maintenance has been deleted and a wide discretion has been given to the magistrate toward appropriate maintenance. Conti…

50. Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act of 1956 as amended and renamed in 1986 makes the sexual exploitation of male or female, a cognizable offence it is being amended to discriminalise the prostitutes and make the laws more stringent against traffickers. Dowry Prohibition Act was amended in 1984 where women's. subjection to cruelty was made a cognizable offence. The second amendent brought in 1986 makes the husband or in-laws punishable, if a women commits suicide with in 1 years of her marriage and it has been proved that she has been subjected to cruelty. Also a new criminal offence of ‘Dowry Death’ has been incorporated in the Indian penal code. Conti…

51. Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1976 raises the age for marriage of a girl to 18years from 15 years and that of a boy to 21years find makes offences under this act cognizable. Medical Termination Pregnancy Act of 1971 legalizes abortion by qualified professional in humanitarian or medical grounds. The maximum punishment may group to life imprisonment. The act has further been amended specifying the place and person authorized to perform abortion and provide for penal action against the unauthorized person performing abortion. Conti…

52. Indecent Representation Of Women(prohibition)act of 1986 and the commission of sati(prevention) act 1987 have been enacted to protect the dignity of women and prevent violence against them as well as their exploitation. Protection Of Women From Domestic Violence Act of 2005 provides for more effective protection of the rights of women guaranteed under the constitution who are victims of violence of any kind occurring with in the family and for matters connected with or incidental to it. It provides for immediate and emergent relief to women in situation of violence of any kind in the home. Conti…

53. Preconception And Prenatal Diagnostic Act is enacted to stop female feticide and arrest the declining sex ration in India. The act bans prenatal sex determination before or after conception and prevents the misuse of prenatal diagnostic technique for sex selective abortion. Maternity Benefit Act provides for the payment of maternity benefit to a pregnant women at the rate of the average daily wage for the period of her actual absence. she is entitled to leave with wages for six weeks in case of miscarriage or MTP, two weeks in case of lubectomy operation and one month in case of illness arising out of pregnancy, delivery or premature birth child. Conti…

54. Promoting societal awareness to gender issues and women's human rights. Review of curriculum and educational materials to include gender education and human rights issues. Removal of all reference derogatory to the dignity of women from all public documents and legal instruments. Use of different forms of mass media to communicate social messages relating to women's equality and empowerment. GENDER SENSITISATION

55. Action Plan: C entral and state ministries draw up time bound action plans for translating the policy into a set of concrete actions through a participatory process of consultation with centre/state departments of women and child development and national/state commission for women. OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES

56. Salient features are: Measurable goals to be achieved by 2010. Identification and commitment of resources Structures and mechanisms to ensure efficient monitoring, review and gender impact assessment of action points and policies. Introduction of a gender perspective in the budgeting process for adequate allocation of resources, gender development index (GDI) will be developed by networking with specialized agencies working in coordination with evaluation mechanisms Conti…

57. Adequate resource allocation to develop and promoting the policy outlined earlier based on concerned departments. Developing synergy between personnel of health, rural development, education and women and child development department at field level and other village level functionaries. Meeting credit needs by banks and financial credit institution through suitable policy initiatives and development of new institutions in coordination with the department of women and child development. Resource Management:

58. Department of women and child development will be nodal ministry reviewing and formulating policies at the highest level. National council headed by prime minister and state councils headed by chief ministers at the state level to meet biannually for progress plans and other issues. Institutional Mechanisms:

59. National and state resource centers in women will be established with mandates for collection and dissemination of information, undertaking research work, conducting surveys, implementing training and awareness generation programs etc. Women will be organized into self help group(SHG’s) at anganwadi/village/town level. Conti…

60. The PRI will play a central role in the process of enhancing women's participation in public life. The PRI and the local self government will be actively involved in the implementation and execution of the national policy for women at the grassroots level. Panchayat Raj Institution(PRI):

61. The involvement of voluntary organizations associations, federation, trade union, nongovernmental organizations, women's organization as well as institution dealing with education, training and research will be ensured in the formulation implementation monitoring and review of all policies and programs affecting women. Partnership With Voluntary Sector Organisations :

62. The policy will aim at implementation of international obligations/commitments in all sectors on empowerment of women such as the convention on all forms of discrimination against women(CEDAW),convention on the rights of the child(CRC), International conference on population and development (ICPD) and other such instruments. International, regional and sub-regional cooperation towards the empowerment of women will continue to be encouraged. International Cooperation:

63. Women's empowerment has been given a lot of focus in the 12 th plan. the key elements for this are: Economic empowerment Social and physical infrastructure Enabling legislations Women's participation in governance Inclusiveness of all categories of vulnerable women Measures For Women Empowerment Under 12 th Five Year Plan(2012-2017)

64. Non governmental organizations are playing a significant role in the empowerment of women. Just a few years after independence the government set up the social welfare board, an apex body of the voluntary sector that aids more than 10,000 NGO’s across the country, helping women stand on their own through such program as socio-economic program, vocational training and other similar programs. ROLE OF NGO’s

65. The department of women and child development has been implementing special programs for the holistic development and empowerment of women with major focus to improve their socio economic status there has been policy shifts from time to time based on the shifts in emphasis. The year 2001 was declared as women's empowerment year to bring grater focus on the programs for women. Role Of Government

66. A program of support to training-cum-employment (STEP) for women was launched in 1987 to strengthen and improve the skills for employment opportunities for women below the poverty line in traditional sectors of agriculture small animal husbandry etc where women are employed on a large scale. Swayam sidha launched in march 2001 and the swa-shakthi project (earlier known as Rural Women's Development And Empowerment Project),launched in october1998 Conti…

67. Magalu Namma Shakthi: this scheme provides Rs.2500 insurance facility to girl child at the age of 5 years and from 6 th year the girl will get annual dividend on the deposit and at the age of 18yrs she will receive Rs 4410 provided age is unmarried. This scheme aims at discouraging early marriage. Maintenance of nine destitute colleges where food, shelter, clothing, bedding is provide for destitute school going children. Welfare Programs For Women And Girl Child

68. Also runs crèches for working mothers in Bellary urban and rural areas. Maintenance grants to Mahila Mandals etc. Conti…

69. National Maternity Benefit Scheme: this scheme is sponsored by central government and its implemented by the department at the district level through ICDS project. Under this scheme Rs 500 is paid in one installment6 to pregnant women to meet her delivery expenses. It may also be paid after delivery. The benefit is admissible for the first two birth. Central Sector Scheme:

70. Balika Samrudhi Yojana: under this scheme Rs 500 is given the nursing mother of a girl child belonging to BPL families. This is limited to 2 females live birth. Conti…

71. Women and child development department also carries out women development corporation schemes like training programs and financial cum production schemes, loan schemes like udyogini, vikasini, Mane Belaku etc to strengthen women economically. Women Development Corporation Scheme

72. Bhopal, 16 th may: the state government had launched Ladli Laxmi Yojana with a view to creating positive thinking about girl among the masses improvement in gender ratio and improving standard and education of health of girls apart from laying a solid foundation for their future. The novel scheme has yielded very results with in a short span of one year. Lady Yojana

73. The state government has launched Ladli Laxmi Yojana with a view to create positive thinking about girls among the masses, improvement in gender ratio and improving standard education of health of girls apart from laying a solid foundation for their future. Conti…

74. The present government in their national common minimum program (NCMP) have laid down six basic principles of governance one of which is to empower politically, educationally, economically and legally. Commitments in the NCMP for women Legislation on domestic violence and against gender discrimination will be enacted. At least one -third of all funds flowing into panchayats will be earmarked for programs for the development of women and children. Village women and their association will be encouraged to assume responsibility for all development schemes relating to drinking water, sanitation, primary education, health and nutrition National Common Minimum Programm

75. We must treat our female child as same as that of our male ones and their restore equality amongst them. No restoration of poverty would be meaningful without making her mentally strong. We must allow them to think and act independently and bung her out of the shackles of slavery. CONCLUSION