Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment

B.Madhurima,

Inner Wheel Club Of Eluru,302

Eluru.

I raise up my voice not to shout at others but to reach my friends who are held back.

“Change never come and knocks our door if we wait for some other person to take the responsibility to initiate any work at a particular time. We are the one that we have been waiting for; we are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama.

Women Empowerment is the process where women are allowed to acquire the ability that they have been restricted earlier. There are certain principles which define women’s empowerment such as they should be capable in decision making, self-supporting and policymaking.

Women empowerment has become a hot topic of discussion in our daily conversations. Research Scholars observed that change has to come in two forms such as economic empowerment and political empowerment of women.  In Economic Empowerment women can increase their outside access to government programs, purchasing power, policy-making and economic independence. Political Empowerment they can generate policies that support gender equality and political interference of women in policy making areas.

One proposition for women is to provide more educational opportunities which will increase their rational thinking and confidence, which strengthens their skills and easy to get into the jobs in their interested fields.

Another strategy to strengthen women is – They should be provided easy access to property inheritance and rights to be regulated to improve women economically, this will support them financially and can acquire better means of capital for their startups.

One popular methodology to empower women is to include microcredit. Micro financial institutions have to come forward by providing easy access to the loans with low-interest rates without providing any collateral securities. This encourages many women entrepreneurs in the society, ultimately job opportunities will increase among women.

Speaking about Political Empowerment, it supports them in policy making and fights against gender inequalities in both public and private spheres. Popular methodologies by scholars have been suggested that are to provide affirmative action policies which increase the women quota in parliament positions and in policy-making places.

India is notable for its cultural heritage traditions, civilization etc. Swami Vivekananda magnified Indian women for their great accomplishments and he stated that women are the leaders, and entered in all fields and proved themselves equal to men. The Sun can give heat and light, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly, as long as women are supported they can easily appraise the society.

According to Vedas, women stand paramount. They are the symbol of culture. In Vedas, it is clearly mentioned that woman should be with good memory so as to fulfill their duties and deep thinking skills and courage to face odd times and to pardon others.

A Mantra in the Yajurveda -

Sa Visvayuh Sa Vishvkarma Sa Vishvdhayah Indrasya Twa Bhagam Somen Aatnachmi

Vishno Havyam Raksha.

The woman is the creator, controller and supporter. If she is capable of playing all her roles, then Why don’t she is Empowered?

For women, there is no ornament other than their power, name and fame.

Let us join our hands for a noble cause.