Social challenges

2018

This paper attempts to analyze the status of Women Empowerment in India and highlights the Issues and Challenges of Women Empowerment. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women’s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. The study is based on purely from secondary sources. The study reveals that women of India woare relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. The study concludes by an observation that access to Education, Employment and Change in Social Structure are only the enabling factors to Women Empowerment.

The vulnerable condition of women around the world is repeated in India but in more miserable ways. The position of women in the developed world is certainly better. More and more attention is drawn towards raping the innocent victims in India. So many are the records of such crimes published that one cannot repeat them as they simply pour in. More are the happenings unrecorded for unless something creates uproar in the society interfered by political voice they go unnoticed.

isara solutions, 2019

The status of women in India has been subjected to many great changes over the past few decades.Women have been progressed,educated and employed by reforms and upliftment which brought a radical change in the society but without touching the roots of the problems that women have been fighting with. Women's rights under the constitution mainly include equality, dignity, and freedom from discrimination; additionally, India has various statutes governing the rights of women. However, women in India continue to face numerous problems such as sexual assault, gender inequality and dowry.The status of women in India is like the eco system of the earth, losing its actual shape and qualities and taking a new change imbalanced and unwanted leading to a smaller problem to a bigger one.

Indian women have reached on the top of the world. Their status has increased in all the aspects. In the fields of politics, education, economy, sports and so on there have been remarkable achievements to the credit of women. But it is not proportional to the actual talents and capabilities of Indian women. Constitution of India provides equal status for both women and men.

Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, 2021

Empowering women is a debatable subject. It was the strong urge of Indian constitution and national leaders just after Independence that women should enjoy equal status with men in society. Although today, in all walks of the fields, we have seen women holding respectable roles. Yet, some prejudice and violence against women’ in society has not been fully abolished. Number of women are very less who have been able to determine their ability. Gender inequalities and prejudice are still observed today in India. A century ago, Mahatma Gandhi pioneered in this sector, paving the path for women's emancipation and advancement. An attempt has been made in the article to analyze status of women’s & gender equality in India. It is believed that women have equal rights to participate in the activities and has identical freedom than male in today society. Keywords: Gender equality, Women empowerment etc.

In India, where nearly one-sixth of the world's women live, a woman prime minister held vital powers over the lives of 600 million people for eleven years and modern Indian women have adorned high offices in that of President, Prime minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition, yet in this nation dwell innumerable women who rarely step outside their homes. While many Indian women have taken conspicuous leadership positions in professional and public life, many more spend their days behind household walls. Even those who have set foot forward realizing their lights and recognizing their status, face new challenges of Indian society which is in the process of modernizing itself.

Chhattisgarh Law Journal, 2024

As the largest democratic nation, India encompasses a wide range of diversities and countless differences in the status of women. The portrayal of the status of Indian women in ancient India does not accurately reflect their actual position in today's society. Women now have access to all the rights that are regarded as useful for their empowerment in the twentieth century. Women have a crucial role in Indian mythology, where they are revered in many forms as goddesses. However, there were occasions when women were regarded as movable possessions, with their lives confined to the confines of their homes. While women's political participation at the local level is guaranteed by reservation schemes, their representation in the upper house has not increased by more than 10 percent in the past 75 years of independence. The author aims to elucidate the intricate modern issues associated with femininity in this work. This study aims to examine the different methods that emerged in the 20 th century to address the obstacles faced by women in all areas of life globally.

Dignity to each created being and the creation of the creator is the utmost respect and prospect to the creator and the protector of the universe. Woman and the man is the epitome of the creation of the creator. The image and the likeness of the God are to be experienced and expounded by saluting one another and living in unity and diversity. God has never ceased or eased to speak, God speaks ever anew in every event and moment with content, in every change and in every age without any damage. Every man or woman in need is God's urgent word, deed and bread. There is much confusion and fusion today about the modern concept and precept of Indian womanhood. The injustice and discrimination against women cover every area of social living and every stage and page of life. Emancipation of women from discriminative attitudes, unjust systems and structures of exploitation created by a male-dominated society is a crying need today, especially in India where, as is well known, they are denied even the right to be born, let alone the other forms of injustice. Objective of the study is to enhance the dignity of women and to explore the unity is the possibility in the emancipation of women.

International Journal of Social Economics, 1997

Argues that legal and constitutional rights in themselves do not change social attitudes. In the longer term these attitudes are conditioned by economic pressures, which would ultimately lead to improvement in the status of women. In the Indian context, developmental planning and urbanization did not have a specific focus on the role of women in economic change. As a result, development and urbanization led to very uneven results for different categories of women in India. While the poor women in rural India were left behind, the middle class educated women were able to improve their economic and social status as a result of urbanization and development. Again, Muslim women were unable to make as much social progress as did the Christian and Hindu women.

Journal, 2019

Woman constitutes the key role in the Indian society. Women in ancient India enjoyed high status in society and their condition was good. The Ancient and medieval status of women in modern Indian society regarding Equality, Education, Marriage and Family life, Race and Gender, Religion and Culture is maintained or deteriorated. The Vedic women had economic freedom. Some women were engaged in teaching work. Home was the place of production. Spinning and weaving of clothes were done at home. Women also helped their husbands in agricultural pursuit. In the religious field, wife enjoyed full rights and regularly participated in religious ceremonies with her husband. Religious ceremonies and sacrifices were performed jointly by the husband and wife. Women even participated actively in religious discourses. The status of women improved a little during the Buddhist period though there was no tremendous change. The role of women in Ancient Indian Literature is immense. Ancient India had many learned ladies. The Medieval period (Period between 500 A.D to 1500 A.D) proved to be highly disappointing for the Indian women, for their status further deteriorated during this period. Through this study we come to the conclusion that as the women has equal participation in human development. She is half of the human race. But she lacks in society. Women are not treated with respect as in the Ancient Indian society. Lot of crime against women is seen in the modern society. The Constitutional provisions are not sufficient to get the