NEED FOR EMPOWERMENT:
The evils of gender discrimination and caste discrimination made the women community including the financially stable society a passive corpse. The upliftment of the marginalized women community is inevitable for achieving the strategy of inclusive growth. The participatory nature of the interventionist strategy necessitates the need for women empowerment
DIMENSIONS OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:
Empowerment is an intangible, multidimensional and culturally defined concept. Any attempt to improve the status of women should start with empowerment. Women empowerment is one in which people find the space of their own and began to re-examine their lives critically and collectively
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT:
The economic dimension of women empowerment increases the potential to assist the development of the nation. It also increases women’s access to resources and opportunities. Women’s economic participation and increased income generation help them to increase their dignity and command over their income. This in turn, created a direct impact on poverty reduction and gender equality.
SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT:
Both economic empowerment and social empowerment are not in watertight compartment as each of them are overlapped in many areas. The economic empowerment alone will not capable the women community to flourish in the society. The key thing which has to be done is to empower the women community socially. Literacy is one among the main factors of social empowerment. By educating the illiterate women community can solve the main melancholy in social empowerment.
* Advocacy for women’s rights, gender equality and equity.
* Making legal amendments to accommodate gender sensitivity issues concerning policies
* Promoting affirmative actions and gender mainstreaming
* Promotion of education for girl child.
* Enhancing the use of technology, in particular information & communication to promote the empowerment of women.
* Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.