The term Women Empowerment refers to the increasing of the spiritual , social, political or economic strength of all women. It is frequently seen that the empowered in their capacities develop confidence. Empowerment of women is conceivably the sum of total of the points listed below or parallel capabilities: Having the power of making decisions for self. Having access to resources and information for proper decision making. Need & importance of women empowerment Definition Women empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of women. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities. Women empowerment refers to women invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. Principles Social Empowerment of Women Research article on Violence Against Women

1. Presented by:
Harsh Rastogi,
Nursing Tutor,
M.S. Institute of Nursing,
Lucknow

2. •The term Women Empowerment
refers to the increasing of the
spiritual , social, political or
economic strength of all women.
•It is frequently seen that the
empowered in their capacities
develop confidence.
Women
Empowerment

3. Empowerment of women
is conceivably the sum of
total of the points listed
below or parallel
capabilities:
•Having the power of
making decisions for self.
•Having access to
resources and information
for proper decision
making.
Cont…

4. •Having numerous options to
choose from (instead of yes/no,
either/or),
•Ability of showing
assertiveness while making
decisions collectively.
•Ability to think positively to
bring about a change.
•Ability of developing new skills
for group power and self-
improvement.
Cont…

5. •Ability of using democratic means
to change perceptions of others.
•Adopting changes and a growth
process that are self-initiated and
never ending.
•Overcoming stigma and staying
focused on increasing positive
self-image.
Cont…

6. Need & importance of
women empowerment
•Families will be well developed and small if women are
also given proper work and environment for work.
•For empowering women it is important that they be
given an opportunity to receive better and higher
education.

7. Cont…
•As a result fertility rates will decrease as will mortality rates
of infants. For literate women there are many options in life
other than marriage and later motherhood, they can
become a part of some workforce.
•A delayed marriage means that a woman has fewer fertile
years left and it automatically decreases the number of
children she can bear.

8. Cont…
•They also seem to be more knowledgeable about options
related to family planning.
•Not just literacy but religion also plays a very big part in a
woman's family planning decisions.
•In a poor family living in under developed countries a
literate woman becomes much more than only a mouth
that has to be fed.

9. •Instead of considering
them as a liability and
marrying them off at an
early age, women should
be treated as bread
winners and an asset to
the family.
•For an individual
empowerment provides
the opportunity of
making choices for
oneself, an old tradition's
worthiness can be
challenged and a woman
can seek opportunities
further away from her
villages and family.
Cont…

10. •Women empowerment refers
to increasing the spiritual,
political, social or economic
strength of women.
•It often involves the
empowered developing
confidence in their own
capacities.
•Women empowerment refers
to women invest with power,
especially legal power or official
authority.
Definition

11. Principles
•Women have the right to autonomy and reproductive
choice.
•Women' have the right and social responsibility to
decide whether, how and when to have children and
how many to have; no woman can be compelled to bear
a child or prevented from doing so against her will.
•Men also have a personal and social responsibility for
their own sexual behaviour and fertility and for the
effects of that behaviour on the health and well-being
of their partner & children.

12. •Reproductive health issues should be addressed in the
way women & men experience them; not as isolated,
biomedical phenomena or matter of public policy, but as
an integrated part of everyday life.
•The fundamental sexual and reproductive rights of
women cannot be subordinated against a woman's will to
the interests of partners, family members, policy-makers,
or any other acts.
Cont…

13. •Women must be respected
to make their own
reproductive decisions they
must have both the
information & the authority
to make decisions about
reproduction & the services
that will enable them to
satisfy their reproductive
health needs.
Cont…

14. • Education
• Health
• Nutrition
• Housing & shelter
Social
Empowerment of
Women

15. • Environment
• Science & technology
• Women in difficult
circumstances
• Violence against
women
Cont…

16. •Equal access to education for
women & girls will be ensured.
•Special measures will be taken to
eliminate discrimination, universalize
education, eradicate illiteracy; create
a gender-sensitive educational
system, increase enrolment and
retention rates of girls and improve
the quality of education to facilitate
life-long learning as well as
development of occupation/
vocation/ technical skills by women.
Education

18. Cont…
•Reduce the gender gap in secondary and higher
education would be a focus area.
•Achieve sectoral time targets in existing policies, with a
special focus on girls and women, particularly those
belonging to weaker sections including the Scheduled
Castes/Scheduled Tribes/Other Backward Classes/
Minorities.
•Develop gender sensitive curricula at all levels of
educational system in order address sex stereotyping as
one of the causes of gender discrimination.

19. •Adopt a holistic approach to
women's health which includes
both nutrition and health services.
•Focus special attention to the
needs of women and the girl at all
stages of the lifecycle.
•The reduction of infant mortality
and maternal mortality need
accessibility of comprehensive,
affordable and quality health care
for women.
Health

20. Cont…
•Educate about the vulnerability to sexual and health
problems together with endemic, infectious and
communicable diseases such as malaria, TB, and
waterborne diseases as well as hypertension and
cardiopulmonary diseases.
•Accurate registration of infant and maternal mortality,
and early marriage. Strict implementation of registration
of births and deaths would be ensured and registration of
marriages would be made compulsory.

21. Cont…
•Explain the need for population control.
•This policy recognizes the critical need of men and women
to have access to safe, effective and affordable methods of
family planning.

22. •The high-risk of malnutrition and
disease that women face at all the
three critical stages viz., infancy and
childhood, adolescent and
reproductive phase, focused
attention would be paid to meet
nutritional needs of women at all
stages of the lifecycle.
•This is also important in view of the
critical link between the health of
adolescent girls, pregnant and
lactating women with the health of
infant and young children.
Nutrition

23. Cont…
•Special efforts will be made to tackle the problem of
macro and micro nutrient deficiencies especially amongst
pregnant and lactating women as it leads to various
diseases and disabilities.
•Widespread use of nutrition education would be made to
address the issues of intra-household imbalances in
nutrition and the special needs of pregnant and lactating
women.
•Ensure Women's participation in the planning,
superintendence and delivery of the system.

24. •Show special attention to the needs of women in the
provision of safe drinking water, sewage disposal, toilet
facilities and sanitation within accessible reach of
households, especially in rural areas and urban slums.
•Ensure Women's participation in the planning, delivery
and maintenance of such services.
Cont…

25. •Provision of housing policies,
planning of housing colonies and
shelter both in rural and urban
areas.
•Special attention will be given for
providing adequate and safe
housing and accommodation for
women including single women,
heads of households working
women, students, apprentices and
trainees.
Housing and
Shelter

26. •Women will be involved
and their perspectives
reflected in the policies and
programmes for
environment, conservation
and restoration.
•The vast majority of rural
women still depends on the
locally available non-
commercial sources of
energy such as animal
dung, crop waste and fuel
wood.
Environment

27. •Women will be involved in
spreading the use of solar
energy, biogas, smokeless
chulahs and other rural
application so as to have a
visible impact of these
measures in influencing
ecosystem and in changing
the life styles of rural
women.
Cont…

28. •Programs will be strengthened
to bring about a greater
involvement of women in
science and technology.
•Motivate girls to take up
science and technology for
higher education.
•Ensure that development
projects with scientific and
technical inputs involve women
fully.
Science and
Technology

29. Cont…
•Special measures would be taken for their training in
areas where they have special skills like communication
and information technology.
•Efforts to develop appropriate technologies suited to
women's needs as well as to reduce their drudgery will be
given a special focus too.

30. •These groups include women in
extreme poverty, destitute women,
women in conflict situations,
women affected by natural
calamities, women in less
developed regions, the disabled
widows, elderly women, single
women in difficult circum stances,
women heading households, those
displaced from employment,
migrants, women who are victims
of marital violence, deserted
women and prostitutes, etc.
Women in difficult
circumstances

31. •All forms of violence
against women, physical
and mental, whether at
domestic or societal levels,
including those arising
from customs, traditions or
accepted practices shall be
dealt with effectively with a
view to eliminate its
incidence.
Violence against
women

32. •Strengthen the assistance
for prevention of such
violence, including sexual
harassment at work place
and customs like dowry; for
the rehabilitation of the
victims of violence and for
taking effective action
against the perpetrators of
such violence.
•A special emphasis will also
be laid on programs and
measures to deal with
trafficking in women and
girls.
Cont…

33. Research article on Violence
Against Women
http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/wjssr/article/viewFi
le/3863/4074

35. Its a bird, its a plane; its
SUPERWOMAN!

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