Women’s Empowerment largely includes various social processes that help women to take control of their lives, more importantly; this includes taking informed decisions on issues that affect the day to day lives of women. Empowerment also constitutes a change in existing power configurations that influence decision-making. This change can happen when there is a belief that the existing power configurations can be changed, and also can be expanded.

Empowerment can begin with awareness. But, empowerment is much larger in scope than awareness creation on issues concerning women. And for women, it involves political empowerment (representation), social empowerment (awareness on laws protecting them to get relieved from the societal traditional and practices that confine their freedom, thoughts etc), and economic empowerment (control and capacity of will to use her economic resources, and freedom to operate them at will).

The National Policy for the Empowerment of Women (2001) outlines various objectives of a larger plan towards Women’s Empowerment. Strategies that aim gender equality should focus on designing ways that accelerate access to resources, decision-making at all levels. This would help women realize their full potential. While the government does it part instituting various laws towards ending all forms of gender discrimination, domestic violence etc, the society has a part to play by promoting a change in our existing attitudes towards gender- sensitive issues.

For more details on Women’s Empowerment, please visit http://wcd.nic.in/

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