ROLE OF

WOMEN IN
EMPOWERMEN
T OF INDIA
Prepared by
RAM SINGH JTO
SANJEEV KUMAR JTO
RAJINDER SINGH JTO
Batch No: 6, CFA- CDOT, Phase-II

EMPOWERMENT
CONCEPT AND ITS
MEANING

CONCEPT
Empowerment can be viewed as means of
creating a social environment in which one
can make decisions and make choices either
individually or collectively for social
transformation.

MEANING
Empowerment is the process of enabling or
authorizing individual to think, take action and
control work in an autonomous way. It is the
process by which one can gain control over
ones destiny and the circumstances of ones
lives. Empowerment includes control over
resources (physical, human, intellectual and
financial) and over ideology (beliefs, values
and attitudes).

WHY ?

Womens
Empowerm
ent is very
essential for
the

developmen
t of society.

 THE EXTENSION OF WOMENS RIGHTS IS THE

BASIC PRINCIPLE OF ALL SOCIAL
PROGRESS
- CHARLES
FOURIER -

PRACTICAL

STATUS

OF

INDIAN

WOMENT

THERE WAS TIME WHEN WOMAN WERE JUST

KITCHEN KEEPERS AND HOUSE KEEPERS IN THE
INDIAN SOCIETY. GRADUALLY MOMENT BEGAN TO
GET EDUCATED , EVEN HIGHLY EDUCATED AND A
STAGE CAME WHEN SOME OF THEM CAME OUT ON
THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FIELD TO SUBSHOULDERS WITH THE MEN IN THESE FIELD. IN
MODERN INDIA WOMAN HAVE ACHIEVED HIGH
OFFICES INCLUDING THAT OF THE PRESIDENT ,
PRIME MINSITER, SPEAKER OF THE LOK SABHA ETC.

THE

CHANGING

SCENARIO

IN THOSE DAYS WOMEN FACED MANY SOCIAL

PROBLEMS LIKE DOWRY, CHILD MARRIAGES, DEATH
DURING CHILD BIRTH, SATI ETC. BUT NOW A DAYS
THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA HAS BEEN
SUBJECT MANY GREAT CHANGES OUR THE PAST
FEW MILLENNIA. IN YEAR 1995 WAS DECLARED AS
THE
INTERNATIONAL
YEAR
OF
WOMEN
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE WOMEN WERE
MADE AWARE OF THEIR STATUS AND PLACE IN
SOCIETY. WOMEN ARE NOW NO LONGER IN
SLUMBER. THEY ARE AWAKE AND MOVING FAST.

FROM ANCIENT
TIME WOMAN IS
CONSIDERED AS A
SOURCE OF POWER

VEDIC ERA

MEDIEVAL ERA

History looks
diff erent when the
contribution
women are
included.

 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy was an eminent medical practitioner, social

reformer and Padma Bhushan awardee in India. She was the first women
legislator in India. ( Madras Legislative Council in 1927)
She beginning lifelong effort to "correct the balance" for women.
Sarojini Naidu-The Nightingale of Indiawas an
Indian independence activist and poet. T he first woman to become the
governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the
president of the Indian National Congressin 1925.
Rajkumari Amrit Kaurwas the health minister in theIndian Cabinetfor
ten years after India's independence from the British Rajin 1947. She was
an eminentGandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist. She was also
a member of the Constituent Assembly, The body that framed the
constitution of India.
Aruna Asif Ali was an Indian independence activist. She is widely
remembered for hoisting the Indian National
Congress flag in Bombay during the Quit India Movement

WORK PARTICIPATION

STRATEGIES OF EMPOWERING
WOMEN

Empowerment
of
women
through
development
of
women and children in the
rural areas/Self-Help Groups.
Empowerment
of Women
through
education
and
training.
Empowerment
through
political participation.
Empowerment evaluation as
strategies of empowering

GOVERNMENT
ENACTMENTS
The Child Marriage Restraint Act of
1929
The Hindu Womens Right to Property
Act of 1937
The Hindu Widow Re-Marriage Act of
1856
The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955
This Act has recognized the equal
rights of men and women in the matters of
marriage and divorce

The Hindu Succession Act of 1956.

She can inherit the property of her
father along with her brothers.

The Dowry Prohibition Act 1961

You can tell the

condition of
a Nation by looking at
the status of
S h .women.
Jawahar Lal
Nehru

Modern Era

KALPNA CHAWLA

LATA

BACHENDRI PAL

KIRAN BEDI

Arundhati Roy:Arundhati won the coveted Booker Prize in 1997 for her
first novelThe God of Small Things.She put the Indian writing in the world
radar with her novel.

Indra Nooyi:The Madras-born Nooyi is the president and chief executive

officer of PepsiCo.

KIRAN MAZUMDAR SHAW She is the Managing Director and Chairman of

Bangalore based biotech company Biocon Ltd. She herself has been a
recipient of countless prestigious awards like Padma Bhushan, Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award and also the Padma Shree.

Chanda Kochhar, who holds the position of CEO at the countrys largest
private sector bank ICICI Pvt Ltd

Education and Employment are

only the
enablingfactorstoempowerment

Development of our
Country depends on
the Empower of Women
"Education is one of the most important
means of empowering women with the
knowledge, skills and self-confidence
necessary to participate fully in the
development process."

Educate a man you educate an

individual
but educate a woman you

THANKS