Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2015

IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN

Pratibha J. Mishra

Abstract :

 According to UN Human Development report the human development paradigm contains four main  components–productivity equity sustainability and empowerment. Through enhanced capabilities, the creativity and productivity of people must be increased so that they become effective agents of growth. Economic growth  must be combined with equitable distribution its benefits. Equitable opportunities must be available both to present  and to future generations. And all people, women and men, must be empowered to participate in design and implementation of key decisions that shaped their lives. Human Development is impossible without gender equality. As long  as women are excluded from the development process, development will remain weak and lopsided. Empowerment is widely used word but seldom defined. Long before it became popular, women were discussing about  gaining control over their lives & participate in decision–making. The word empowerment captures this sense of gaining control, of participation, of decision–making. More recently the word empowerment has entered the vocabulary of  government NGOs international development agencies and United Nations.  Empowerment is a process aimed at changing the nature and direction of systematic forces, which marginalize women  and other disadvantaged section in a given context. Empowerment is also visualized as enabling process. It implies  fundamental redistribution of power within and between families/societies and an externally induced process or mechanism of change to words women's equality and development. Empowerment is a process and is not, therefore something that can be given to people. The process of empowerment  is both individual self–assertion to collective resistance, protest and mobilization that challenge basic power relations.  For individuals and groups where class, caste ethnicity and gender determine their access to resources and power,  their empowerment begins when they not only recognize the systematic forces that oppress them but act to change  existing power relationships.

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PRATIBHA J.MISHRA IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMENb Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 5 May 2015

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