3. In the ancient Indian society women were adored and
worshiped as goddesses. However in the middle age of
women got down to A great extent.
Women are considered in the society only to perform
duties like bring up children, caring every family
member, and other household activities.
There is old and traditional faith of people coming out for
years that men are for thy field where as women are only
for the home. Now a days women are breaking all the
barriers of social issues and problem against them in the
society.
4. EMPOERMENT is the process of
increasing the authority and
responsibility of individual or groups to
make choices and to transform those
choices into desired actions and
outcomes.
5. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT refers to increasing the
spiritual , political, social, or economic strength of
women. Its often involves the empowered developing
confidence in their own capacities.
6. Women’s sense of self worth.
Right to have and to determine choices.
Right to have access to opportunities and resources.
Right to have the power to control their own lives,
both with in and outside the home.
Ability to influence the direction of social change to
create a more just social and economic order,
nationally and internationally.
7. Total Indian population is 1,358,670,486, as Thursday
October/2018/25 based on the latest united nations
estimates.
Women population, in Indian was reported at 48.18%
in 2017.
Total no. of female in India 652,936,160(65.2 cror) 15
October 2018.
Total male population in India 697,221,325(69.7 cror)
15 October 2018.
Sex ratio 945 females per 1000 males on 15 October
2018
8. Enhance self esteem and self confidence in women
Build a positive image of women by recognizing their
contributions to the society and economy.
Develop in them an ability to think critically.
Foster decision making and action through collective
process.
9. Enable them to make informal choices in areas like
education employment and health.
Ensure equal participation in the development process
Provide information knowledge and skill for economic
independence.
Enhance access to legal literacy and information related to
their and entitlement in the society with a view to enhance
their participation on an equal footing in all areas
10. Next generation will be empowered because of her.
If women will be empowered she will not be a burden
on anyone.
Financial burden of man can be shared with her
support.
Family can be more strong because of both working
hands.
When financial problem will be shared than result of
conflict.
11. Selective abortion and female infanticide.
Sexual harassment.
Dowry and bride burning.
Disparity in education
Domestic violence
Child marriages
Inadequate nutrition
Low status in the family
Status of widows
12. GOAL:
To bring about the advancement, development and
empowerment of women.
Objectives:
Creating and environment through positive economic and
social policies for full development of women to enable
them to realize their full potential.
Equal access to participate and decision making of women
in social, political and economic life of the nation.
Equal access to women to health care, quality education to
all level, career an vocational guidance ,employment equal
remunerate occupation health and safety .
13. Building and strengthen partnership with civil society,
particularly women’s organization’s
Strengthening legal system aimed at elimination of all forms of
discrimination against women.
Elimination of discrimination and all forms of violence against
women and the girl child.
Mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development process
Changing societal attitudes and community practices by active
participation and involvement of both men and women.
14. Features
To create society with women working as equal
partners in all spheres of life.
To develop a framework to ensure equal rights and
opportunities for women
Health and education of women have been kept a
priority in the proposed draft the draft has proposed to
improve access to pre-primary education
15. To carryout skill development and provide equal
employment opportunities
To provide suitable benefits related to maternity and child
care services
To address all forms of violence against women.
To improve child sex ratio
To prevent trafficking at source, transit and destinatation
areas for effective monitoring of the networks.
16. JUDICIAL LEGAL SYSTEM:
Legal judicial system will be more responsive and gender
sensitive to women's needs, especially in cases of domestic
violence and personal assault.
New laws will be enacted and existing laws reviewed to ensure
that justices is quick and the punished of the offence.
The full participation of all stakeholders including community
and religious leaders, the policy would aim to encourage
changes in personal laws such as those related to marriage,
divorce, maintenance and guardianship. So as it eliminate
discrimination against women.
17. DECISION MAKING
Women's equality in power sharing and active
participation in decision making, including decision
making in political process at all level will be ensured
for the achievement of the goals of empowerment.
18. MAIN STREAMING A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Policies, programs and systems will be established to
ensure mainstreaming of women's perspectives in all
development process, as catalysts, participants and
recipient.
Women friendly personnel policies will also be drawn
up to encourage women to participate effectively in the
developmental process.
19. 1. Establish high level corporate leadership for gender
equality
2. Treat all women and men fairly at work respect and
support human rights and nondiscrimination.
3. Ensure the health safety and well-being of all women
and men workers
4. Promote education, learning and professional
development for women.
20. 5. Implement enterprise development, supply chain and
marketing practices that empower women.
6. Promote equality through community initiatives and
advocacy.
7. Measure and public report on progress to achieve
gender equality.
21. Affirm high level support and direct top level policies
for gender equality and human rights.
Establish company wide goals and targets for gender
equality and include progress as a factor in managers
performed reviews
Engage internal and external stakeholders in the
development of company policies, programs and
implementation plans that advance equality.
22. Pay equal remuneration, including benefits, for work of
equal and strive to pay a living wage to all women and men.
Ensure that work place policies and practices are free from
gender-based discrimination
Offer flexible work options, leave and re-entry
opportunities to positions of equal pay and status.
Support access to child and dependent care by providing
services, resources and information to both women and
men.
23. Establish a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of
violence at work, including verbal and physical abuse and
prevent sexual harassment.
Respect women and men workers rights to time off for
medical care and counseling for themselves and their
dependents.
Train security staff and managers to recognize signs of
violence against women and understand laws and company
policies on human trafficking, labor and sexual exploitation.
24. Ensure equal access to all company- supported
education and training programs, including literacy
classes, vocational and information technology
training.
Provide equal opportunity for formal and informal
networking and mentoring.
Offer opportunities to promote the business case for
women's empowerment and the positive impacts of
inclusion for men as well as women.
25. Expand business relationship with women's owned
enterprises, including small businesses and women
entrepreneurs.
Support gender-sensitive solution to credit and lending
barriers
Ask business partners an peers to respect the company's
commitment to advancing equality and inclusion.
Ensure that company products, services and facilities are
not for human trafficking and labor or sexual exploitation.
26. Work with community stakeholders, officials and others to
eliminate discrimination and exploitation and open
opportunities for women and girls.
Promote and recognize women's leadership in and
contributions to their communities and ensure sufficient
representation f women in any community consultation.
Use philanthropy and grant programmes to support
company commitment to inclusion, equality and human
rights
27. Make public the company policies and implementation
plan for promoting gender equality.
Establish benchmarks that quantify inclusion of women
at all levels.
Measure and report on progress, both internally and
externally, using data disaggregated by gender.
28. POVERTY ERADICATIONS :
* Macro economic policies and poverty eradication
programmes will specifically address the needs and
problems of women
*These will improve implementation of
programmes which are already women oriented with
special targets for women.
29. Establishment of new and strengthening of existing
micro-credit mechanisms and micro finance institution
will be undertaken so that the out reach of credit is
enhanced.
other supportive measures would be taken to ensure
adequate flow of credit through financial institution and
banks, so that all women below poverty line have easy
access to credit
30. There is a need for re-framing policies for access to
employment and quality of employment.
Strategies will be designed to enhance the capacity of
women and empower them to meet the negative social
and economic impacts, which may flow from the
globalization process.
31. The programmes for training women in social
conservation, social forestry, dairy development and
other occupations allied to agriculture like horticulture
livestock including small animal husbandry, poultry,
fisheries etc. will be expanded to benefit women
workers in the agriculture sector.
32. The important role played by women in electronics,
information technology and food processing and agro
industry and textiles has been crucial to the
development of these sectors .
They would be given comprehensive support in terms
of labor legislation, social security and other support
services to participate in various industrial sectors.
33. Support services like child care facilities, including
crèches at work place and educational institutions,
homes for the aged and the disabled, will provide for
women to enable them to participate actively on the
development process.
34. This project was started with the aim of making women
economically empowered.
Delhi commission for women in the year 2000-2001
was to set up pilot projects in collaboration with partner
NGO’s for empowering women economically and thus
helping prevent crimes against women.
The commission tied up with various NGO’s working
part of Delhi for formation of SHG.
35. SHG is a group formed by the community women,
which has specific numbers of members like 15 or 20
in such a group in the poorest women would come
together for emergency, disaster, social reasons,
economic support to each other have ease of
conversation social interaction and economic
interaction.
36. EDUCATION :
* Equal access to education for women and girl will
be ensured.
* Special measures will be take to eliminate
discrimination, universal education, eradicate illiteracy,
create gender-sensitive educational system, increase
enrollment and retention rates of girls, improve
occupation/vocation/technical skills.
37. Reduce gender gap in secondary and higher
education
Girls and women belonging to weaker section
including the SC/ST/other backward
classes/Minorities will be given special focus.
38. A holistic approach to women health which includes
both nutrition and health services will be adopted and
special attention will be given to the needs of women
and girl at all stages of life cycle .
The policy reiterates the national demographic goals
for infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate set
out in the national population policy 2000.
39. In view of the high risk of malnutrition and diseases the
women face at all the three critical stages that is
infancy and childhood, adolescent and reproductive
phase, focused attention would be paid to meeting the
nutritional need of women at all stages of the life cycle.
Special efforts should be made to lackle the problem of
micro and macro nutrient deficiencies especially
amongst women lactating women as it leads to various
diseases and disabilities
40. Special attention should be given to the needs of
women in the provision of safe drinking water, sewage
disposal, toilet facilities and sanitation with in
accessible reach of house holds, especially in rural
areas and urban slums.
Women participation will be ensured in the planning,
delivery and maintenance of such services.
41. Women's perspectives will be included in housing
policies, planning of housing colonies and provision of
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,
workingwomen, student, apprentices and trainees.
42. The policy will aim at promoting the program of non-
conventional energy resources such as animal dung,
crop waste and fuel wood.
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 lifestyle of
rural women.
43. Measures and programs will be undertake to provide
the specially disadvantaged groups with special
assistance. These groups include women in extreme
poverty, destitute women, women in conflict situation,
women affected by national calamities, women in less
developed regions, the disabled widows, elderly
women, single women in difficult circumstances,
women heading households, those displaced from
employement, migrant, women who are victims of
marital violence, deserted women and prostitutes.
44. All forms of discrimination against the girl child and
violation of her rights shall be eliminated by
undertaking strong measures both preventive and
punitive with in and outside the family.
These would relate specifically to strict enforcement of
laws against prenatal sex selection and the practice of
female feticide, female infanticide. Child marriage,
child abuse and child prostitution etc.
45. Removal of discrimination in the treatment of the girl
with in the family an outside and projection of a
positive image of the girl will be actively fostered.
There will be special emphasis on the needs of the girl
child and earmarking of substantial investments in the
areas relating to food and nutrition, and education and
in vocational education
46. Media will be used to portray images consistent with
human dignity of girls and women. The policy will
specifically to strive to remove demeaning, degrading
and negative conventional stereotypical images of
women and violence against women.
Private sectors partners and media networks will be
involved at all levels to ensure equal access for women
particularly in the area of information and
communication technologies.
47. The media would be encouraged to develop
codes of conduct, professional guidelines and
other self regulatory mechanisms to remove
gender stereotypes and promote balanced
portrayals of women and men.
48. Reforms have been designed in various domains like
marriage, succession, domestic violence, sexual
offence, at work place, prostitution and some
miscellaneous relevant areas to safe guard women.
49. Some of the notable legislations are as follows:
Equal Remuneration Act of 1976 provides for equal pay
to men and women for equal works.
Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 amended in 1976 provides
the right to repudiate a child marriage before attaining
maturity whether the marriage has been consummated or
not.
Marriage (Amendment Act) 2001 amended the Hindu
marriage act, special marriage act, parsi applications for
maintenance ; the ceiling limit for claiming maintenance
has been deleted and a wide discretion has been given to the
magistrate toward appropriate maintenance.
50. Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act of 1956 as
amended and renamed in 1986 makes the sexual
exploitation of male or female, a cognizable offence it
is being amended to discriminalise the prostitutes and
make the laws more stringent against traffickers.
Dowry Prohibition Act was amended in 1984 where
women's. subjection to cruelty was made a cognizable
offence. The second amendent brought in 1986 makes
the husband or in-laws punishable, if a women commits
suicide with in 1 years of her marriage and it has been
proved that she has been subjected to cruelty. Also a
new criminal offence of ‘Dowry Death’ has been
incorporated in the Indian penal code.
51. Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1976 raises the age
for marriage of a girl to 18years from 15 years and that
of a boy to 21years find makes offences under this act
cognizable.
Medical Termination Pregnancy Act of 1971
legalizes abortion by qualified professional in
humanitarian or medical grounds. The maximum
punishment may group to life imprisonment. The act
has further been amended specifying the place and
person authorized to perform abortion and provide for
penal action against the unauthorized person
performing abortion.
52. Indecent Representation Of Women(prohibition)act of
1986 and the commission of sati(prevention) act 1987 have
been enacted to protect the dignity of women and prevent
violence against them as well as their exploitation.
Protection Of Women From Domestic Violence Act of
2005 provides for more effective protection of the rights of
women guaranteed under the constitution who are victims
of violence of any kind occurring with in the family and for
matters connected with or incidental to it. It provides for
immediate and emergent relief to women in situation of
violence of any kind in the home.
53. Preconception And Prenatal Diagnostic Act is enacted to
stop female feticide and arrest the declining sex ration in
India. The act bans prenatal sex determination before or
after conception and prevents the misuse of prenatal
diagnostic technique for sex selective abortion.
Maternity Benefit Act provides for the payment of
maternity benefit to a pregnant women at the rate of the
average daily wage for the period of her actual absence.
she is entitled to leave with wages for six weeks in case
of miscarriage or MTP, two weeks in case of lubectomy
operation and one month in case of illness arising out of
pregnancy, delivery or premature birth child.
54. Promoting societal awareness to gender issues and women's
human rights.
Review of curriculum and educational materials to include
gender education and human rights issues.
Removal of all reference derogatory to the dignity of
women from all public documents and legal instruments.
Use of different forms of mass media to communicate
social messages relating to women's equality and
empowerment.
55. Action Plan:
Central and state ministries draw up time
bound action plans for translating the policy
into a set of concrete actions through a
participatory process of consultation with
centre/state departments of women and child
development and national/state commission
for women.
56. Salient features are:
1) Measurable goals to be achieved by 2010.
2) Identification and commitment of resources
3) Structures and mechanisms to ensure efficient
monitoring, review and gender impact assessment of
action points and policies.
4) Introduction of a gender perspective in the budgeting
process for adequate allocation of resources, gender
development index (GDI) will be developed by
networking with specialized agencies working in
coordination with evaluation mechanisms
57. Adequate resource allocation to develop and promoting the
policy outlined earlier based on concerned departments.
Developing synergy between personnel of health, rural
development, education and women and child development
department at field level and other village level
functionaries.
Meeting credit needs by banks and financial credit
institution through suitable policy initiatives and
development of new institutions in coordination with the
department of women and child development.
58. Department of women and child development will be
nodal ministry reviewing and formulating policies at
the highest level.
National council headed by prime minister and state
councils headed by chief ministers at the state level to
meet biannually for progress plans and other issues.
59. National and state resource centers in women will be
established with mandates for collection and
dissemination of information, undertaking research
work, conducting surveys, implementing training and
awareness generation programs etc.
Women will be organized into self help group(SHG’s)
at anganwadi/village/town level.
60. The PRI will play a central role in the process of
enhancing women's participation in public life.
The PRI and the local self government will be actively
involved in the implementation and execution of the
national policy for women at the grassroots level.
61. The involvement of voluntary organizations
associations, federation, trade union, nongovernmental
organizations, women's organization as well as
institution dealing with education, training and research
will be ensured in the formulation implementation
monitoring and review of all policies and programs
affecting women.
62. The policy will aim at implementation of international
obligations/commitments in all sectors on
empowerment of women such as the convention on all
forms of discrimination against
women(CEDAW),convention on the rights of the
child(CRC), International conference on population and
development (ICPD) and other such instruments.
International, regional and sub-regional cooperation
towards the empowerment of women will continue to
be encouraged.
63. Women's empowerment has been given a lot of focus in
the 12th plan. the key elements for this are:
Economic empowerment
Social and physical infrastructure
Enabling legislations
Women's participation in governance
Inclusiveness of all categories of vulnerable women
64. Non governmental organizations are playing a
significant role in the empowerment of women.
Just a few years after independence the government set
up the social welfare board, an apex body of the
voluntary sector that aids more than 10,000 NGO’s
across the country, helping women stand on their own
through such program as socio-economic program,
vocational training and other similar programs.
65. The department of women and child development has
been implementing special programs for the holistic
development and empowerment of women with major
focus to improve their socio economic status there has
been policy shifts from time to time based on the shifts
in emphasis.
The year 2001 was declared as women's empowerment
year to bring grater focus on the programs for women.
66. A program of support to training-cum-employment
(STEP) for women was launched in 1987 to strengthen
and improve the skills for employment opportunities
for women below the poverty line in traditional sectors
of agriculture small animal husbandry etc where
women are employed on a large scale.
Swayam sidha launched in march 2001 and the swa-
shakthi project (earlier known as Rural Women's
Development And Empowerment Project),launched in
october1998
67. Magalu Namma Shakthi:
this scheme provides Rs.2500 insurance facility to
girl child at the age of 5 years and from 6th year the
girl will get annual dividend on the deposit and at the
age of 18yrs she will receive Rs 4410 provided age is
unmarried. This scheme aims at discouraging early
marriage.
Maintenance of nine destitute colleges where food,
shelter, clothing, bedding is provide for destitute school
going children.
68. Also runs crèches for working mothers in Bellary urban
and rural areas.
Maintenance grants to Mahila Mandals etc.
69. National Maternity Benefit Scheme: this scheme is
sponsored by central government and its implemented
by the department at the district level through ICDS
project.
Under this scheme Rs 500 is paid in one installment6 to
pregnant women to meet her delivery expenses. It may
also be paid after delivery. The benefit is admissible for
the first two birth.
70. Balika Samrudhi Yojana: under this scheme Rs 500 is
given the nursing mother of a girl child belonging to
BPL families. This is limited to 2 females live birth.
71. Women and child development department also carries
out women development corporation schemes like
training programs and financial cum production
schemes, loan schemes like udyogini, vikasini, Mane
Belaku etc to strengthen women economically.
72. Bhopal, 16th may: the state government had launched
Ladli Laxmi Yojana with a view to creating positive
thinking about girl among the masses improvement in
gender ratio and improving standard and education of
health of girls apart from laying a solid foundation for
their future.
The novel scheme has yielded very results with in a
short span of one year.
73. The state government has launched Ladli Laxmi Yojana
with a view to create positive thinking about girls
among the masses, improvement in gender ratio and
improving standard education of health of girls apart
from laying a solid foundation for their future.
74. The present government in their national common minimum
program (NCMP) have laid down six basic principles of
governance one of which is to empower politically,
educationally, economically and legally.
Commitments in the NCMP for women
Legislation on domestic violence and against gender
discrimination will be enacted.
At least one -third of all funds flowing into panchayats
will be earmarked for programs for the development of
women and children.
Village women and their association will be
encouraged to assume responsibility for all development
schemes relating to drinking water, sanitation, primary
education, health and nutrition
75. We must treat our female child as same as that of our
male ones and their restore equality amongst them.
No restoration of poverty would be meaningful
without making her mentally strong.
We must allow them to think and act independently
and bung her out of the shackles of slavery.
