Empowerment of Indian Women

If you are judging the empowerment of Indian women through Jayalalitha, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Burkha Dutt, Indira Nuyi , Sushma Swaraj and women belonging to the same category, you are leading towards a wrong conclusion. However, it does not mean that women empowerment has not shaped up in a positive direction the post independence era. There are many examples like P.T Usha, Sudha Murthy, Kiran Bedi, Medha Patekar etc. who came from the grass root of the Indian society, fought with every negative aspects of chauvinistic attitude and proved their worth in different walks of life.

Need of women empowerment in a billion plus populous India is required for several reasons. Women empowerment does not mean reserving seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures. Because implementation of women reservation in several state’s three tier Panchayat Raj system has proved the whole reservation system as a blunder. The husband becomes the power center and the elected wife remains the rubber stamp only. If we really need to empower Indian women, we need to empower them economically educationally, and provide them proper health care and proper platform to show up their potential.

Empower Women through Education An educated mother can create an educated family. And conglomeration of educated families leads to the end product of a knowledge rich country. As still more than 27% of people in India are living below poverty line, providing adequate medication, diet and medical facility will help in curbing down infant mortality rate and maternal deaths. A healthy mother will give birth to a healthy child which will ultimately help in creating a healthy nation. Even till now, women in rural areas are referred as home-makers only. They devote near about 12-14 hours per day in doing different household work. There are millions of hidden talents among these women. Uniting them under the banner of self-help-groups, providing soft skill and orientation programs and making proper market linkage for the products manufactured by them will empower them financially.

Women empowerment from grass root level is the need of the hour as we are trying to become the new economic superpower by 2025.