The document discusses women empowerment and inclusive growth in India. It outlines five important components of women empowerment: self-importance, choices, access to opportunities, power over their own lives, and influence over social change. Inclusive growth requires reducing poverty and allowing all people to benefit from and contribute to economic growth. It focuses on productive employment and reducing inequality. The document evaluates current remedial measures for empowering women and outlines pathways to further empower women such as educating communities and securing access to reparation.
The document discusses women empowerment and inclusive growth in India. It outlines five important components of women empowerment: self-importance, choices, access to opportunities, power over their own lives, and influence over social change. Inclusive growth requires reducing poverty and allowing all people to benefit from and contribute to economic growth. It focuses on productive employment and reducing inequality. The document evaluates current remedial measures for empowering women and outlines pathways to further empower women such as educating communities and securing access to reparation.
The document discusses women empowerment and inclusive growth in India. It outlines five important components of women empowerment: self-importance, choices, access to opportunities, power over their own lives, and influence over social change. Inclusive growth requires reducing poverty and allowing all people to benefit from and contribute to economic growth. It focuses on productive employment and reducing inequality. The document evaluates current remedial measures for empowering women and outlines pathways to further empower women such as educating communities and securing access to reparation.
The document discusses women empowerment and inclusive growth in India. It outlines five important components of women empowerment: self-importance, choices, access to opportunities, power over their own lives, and influence over social change. Inclusive growth requires reducing poverty and allowing all people to benefit from and contribute to economic growth. It focuses on productive employment and reducing inequality. The document evaluates current remedial measures for empowering women and outlines pathways to further empower women such as educating communities and securing access to reparation.
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH
Introduction The term women empowerment may be defined as a multi-dimensional social process that helps women in gaining control over their own lives, their community and their society by acting on issues that they deem important. It also includes decisions regarding education, participation, mobility, economic independency, public speaking awareness and exercise of rights, political participation etc. There are five 1. The recognition of self-importance important components in women empowerment: 2. The right to have and determine choices 3. The right to have access to opportunities and resources. 4. Their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home and 5. The ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. It
It refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of individuals and communities.
often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities.
Inclusive growth
Inclusive growth is a comprehensive term that includes so many things. It can be studied from the point of view of industry and agriculture, rich and poor, urban and rural , men and women. Here i have focused my attention on the inclusive growth of women. It requires rapid reduction of poverty and allows the people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth. It refers both to the pace and pattern of growth which are considered interlinked and need to be addressed together. It is a long term perspective. Its attention is more on productive employment then on redistribution of income. It is in line with the absolute definition of pro-poor growth. It also focuses on reducing inequality. It also includes ex-ante analysis of source of, and constrains to sustained, high growth, and not only on one group i.e. the poor.
Objectives of the study
To study about women empowerment and inclusive growth in India.
To diagnose the malady.
To evaluate the existing remedial measures.
To analyse the causes for their limitation.
To explore newer and customised path ways.
Methodology
Descriptive research is carried out with specific objectives and hence it results in definite
conclusions. Secondary data are used to find out the path ways for women empowerment and
inclusive growth. .
Limitations of the study
Since secondary data are used for the study the results obtained may be more
inferential than aetiological.
Diagnosis of the malady (Problems faced by women)
a. Sexual harassment at the workplace.
b. Deprivation of promotions and growth opportunities at work place
c. Difficulties of working women to balance their domestic environment with professional life.
d. Facing social problems like early marriage, malnutrition etc.
e. Mental and physiological pressures.
Evaluation of the remedial measures.
The status of women in India has been undergoing a sea-change. Supported by Constitutional guarantees to ensure dignity and equal opportunities, their active participation in all walks of life including education, politics, sport etc., has been growing. Several laws have also been adopted to empower women socially, economically, legally and politically. Considering the role of rural India, the countrys backbone, the Government had taken several measures to strengthen the Pachayanti Raj system with the active participation of women. This gave a boost to increase the number of women being elected to the Lok Sobha and State Assemblies, an indication to suggest their political empowerment. The following are the remedial measures which are already available 1. Constitutional support an guarantee. 2. Protection under law.
To overcome that the following remedial measures have to be introduced:
(i) Training for womens participation in development planning.
(ii) Training in social audit. (iii) Providing participatory community monitoring and evaluation. (iv) Training for planning for disaster - preparedness and mitigation. (v) Training on conflict management.
Analysis of the limitations
(i) Paucity of programmes for preparing women victims.
(ii) Gender inequality within the societies.
(iii) Violence and exacerbation of womens vulnerabilities.
(iv) Economic insecurity.
(v) Domestic abuse of women.
A peep into the path ways.
(i) Empowering women through remediation of the ills.
(ii) Educating communities about sexual violence.
(iii) Balancing the tension between affirming womens realities and affirming discriminatory practices.
(iv) Securing access to reparation and remediation.
(v) Giving a conceptual basis to empowerment.
(vi) Changing the discourse on sexuality.
(vii) Structuring of justice and equality on workable parameters.
