Women empowerment

Women Empowerment W omen are the focus of all development.For any sustainable change towards progress needs involvement of women. There is a great variation across the world in empowering women, even in developed industrial countries. High income is not a prerequisite to creating opportunities for women, Gender empowerment focuses on gender inequality in economic and political opportunity and participation in decision-making process and values. The inequality varies from community to community, race to race and region to region within a particular country. It can be seen in terms of the percentage of women in parliament, State Legislatures,senior officials and managers,and among professional and techinical worker.It was rightly said by Jawaharlal Nehru, ''You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.'' W omen empowerment means increasing the power of women. providing social, economic and poltical status to women through the ...