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Published on July 15, 2013, by Priyanka in Women Empowerment.

Each year we celebrate International

Womens day on March 8th with a
determination to commemorate the
achievements of women, and to
acknowledge the special status they
deserve in society. The significant
question is what dierence has it
made to the position of women?
Have women become really strong,
and have their long term struggles
ended ?

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Though women have progressed in

a number of spheres, yet looking
from a wider perspective, the
situation remains grim. According to
the statistics by CARE, out of 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the
globe, 70% are women. Reflecting on UNESCOs medium term strategy 2008-13,
gender equality has been assigned as organizations global priority. Astonishingly, two
third of the 774 million adults in the world who cannot read is women.

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The context in the developing and third world countries is worse. Women here are still
subject to honor killings, they are still denied their basic rights to education and
freedom, and face violence and abuse. It was observed in a CARE project working with
adolescent girls in India, that these girls were considered as temporary people who
would cease to exist, at least for their fathers, once they are married. In many places in
India, domestic violence is acceptable to women, and cultural and ethical implications
are imposed on their freedom. What does that mean? It would be wrong to state that
nothing has changed as a number of local, national and international organizations are
working together to mitigate the problems, yet their is a long way to go.
Initiatives by NGOs like Jan Chetna Manch, Foundation to educate Girls Globally, The
Hunger Project, STEPS Women Development Organization, in addition to the National
Mission for the Empowerment of women(NMEW) launched by the Govt. of India are
some significant steps towards the goal, and the 2011 Census have shown some
improvements too. The sex ratio in India has improved from 930 in 1971 to 940 as per
2011 census. The female literacy has also increased from 18.3% in 1961 to 74% in
2011, in addition to decrease in male-female literacy gap from 26.6% in 1981 to 16.7%
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in 2011.
These indicators may show improvement, however, the pace is not desirable. Women
empowerment depends on a number of factors as location, social and financial status,
cultural connotations, traditions, and age. Besides the above initiatives, schemes such
as ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme), Rajiv Gandhi National Creche
Scheme for Children of Working Mothers , Dhanalakshmi, Swadhar and many more are
in place.
Despite these schemes, the Global Gender Gap Index observes that India needs to do
much more to improve the position of women. Persistent health, education and
economic participation gaps are acting as main deterrents to the growth.
To conclude, still a vast number of women do not have their own life choices, and
speaking locally, nationally or globally, empowerment is still in its nascent stages.
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9 Comments.

9 Responses

anjali
October 29, 2013 at 8:42 PM

this is a real positiive essay on women empowerment

i really liked it
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supriya
December 6, 2013 at 10:59 AM

got a few valuable points i was looking afteri liked it!

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vinu
January 7, 2014 at 12:31 PM

really super. i got some valied points frm ths essay for my project.
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anmol
January 11, 2014 at 3:14 PM

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for this i won first prize in the essay

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Shreya
February 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM

Data is wrong overall literacy rate in India is 74% in 2011. female literacy rate is
65.46%
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Priyanka
February 26, 2014 at 11:58 AM

Hi Shreya,
Thanks for letting us know. Kindly send us the source to verify the data
and the same will be reflected in the website.
Regards,
Admin
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sweta borkar
March 20, 2014 at 4:04 PM

very very empowering essay.loved the information

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KARAN VERMA
September 19, 2014 at 9:16 PM

Hi! Priyanka this is Karan.The essay reflects a message of power.Actually im

having a competetion, I hope ill be winning.
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Suraj
October 15, 2014 at 8:28 PM

The article is very good, saying about women empowerment from two
sides(negative and positive) but please watch out that correct information is
given in the stats!
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