A STUDY ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT OF INDIA-AN OVEVEIW

Abstract

Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. Women empowerment is the vital instrument to express women’s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. It is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women; they traditionally under privileged ones, in the society. Women empowerment is giving power to women. It is making women better off. It enables a greater degree of self-confidence and sense of independence among women. But women of India are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by government. Today we have noticed different Acts and Schemes of the central government as well as state government to empower the women of India. But, in India women are discriminated and marginalized at every level of the society whether it is social participation, political participation, economic participation, access to education, and also reproductive healthcare. Women are found to be economically very poor all over the India. For these reasons, they require empowerment of all kinds in order to protect themselves and to secure their purity and dignity. Hence this paper attempts to analyze the status of Women Empowerment in India, to identify the problems of Women Empowerment and to study the government schemes for women empowerment.