Empowering women in India: A way not a destination

Abstract

"Identity of men is hidden in women and there is a common proverb that says behind the success of everyman there is a women but success of women keeps men ahead." Of the 1.3 billion people who living in absolute poverty around the Globe, 70% are women for these women, poverty does not just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied, opportunities curtailed and voices silenced. The situations remains far worse at the apex of power: out of 179 nations worldwide, only nine currently have a woman elected head of State or government. Historical shows that only 39 states have ever elected a women President or prime minister. Women are less than one tenth of the world's cabinet ministers and hold one fifth of all sub- ministerial positions (UN2000).NGOs and international agencies, major barriers continue to restrict women's advancement in public life. The extensive comparative literature seeking to explain these cross-national disparities has suggested multiple reasons behind this phenomenon, including the importance of cultural attitudes, social structure and political institutions.Empowerment of women is the key devices to enable them resurrects their status multifariously in the society and reconcile them to share virilities of the fast development world. This device is significant in view of the role that women can more effectively play in all vital areas. It en lights the skills and qualities of women leaders and managers to face challenges and how women has converted the cultural and social obstacles into inspiration ladders for their success or identity. By empowerment of women is meant that the conferment of power by means of low in all matters affect gender interests, related to family well being and socio economic national affairs, providing for participation in decision making in all such matters. Empowerment means to inspire women with the courage to break free from the chains of limiting beliefs, patterns and societal or religious conditions that have traditionally kept women suppressed and unable to realize their true beauty and power. Women's lack of empowerment is believed to be an important factor in the persistence prevalence of malnutrition. This paper presents and highlights on the opportunities and challenges of women workforce in India The present study deals the Empowerment in Management and Women empowerment and how the social and economic factors can contribute to women empowerment and also dealing the changes in women's mobility, interactions, labor patterns, infra household decision making and control over recourses, and also explaining the factors which are to be considered for empowerment.