Women Empowerment: Catalysts for the Change

Abstract

Empowerment of women has garnered a lot of global attention and discussion in the past few decades. Most of the government plans and programs have also placed this agenda at the top of their list. Around the world, there have been consistent attempts to improve women's socioeconomic standing and deal with this issue. On the other hand, it has been noted that most of the policies and initiatives exclusively consider economic empowerment, operating under the assumption that women become more independent economically at the expense of other factors such as health, education, and literacy. The role of women is vital for the progress of human race. The position, effort, and contributions made by women in society serve as a barometer for the general advancement of a country. A nation's social, economic, or political advancement will stagnate in the absence of women' are greater contributors in national activities. Fifty percentage of humankind is women, who also work two thirds of the time, in the entire world. Her wealth in the economy is negligible percentage. Her income makes up only one-third of the total. This shows that women’s economic standing is appalling, particularly in a nation like India. Fifty percentage population, more than fifty percentage of the work, and half of the food consumed in the nation is produced by women. Their income is one third of the total economy and possesses 10% of the country’s income. The conditions of women in the patriarchal society are degenerated form time immemorial.