Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2017

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION: A HOLISTIC AND CONTINUOUS PROCESS

Arigala Haritha

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 Women empowerment is the process of enabling and developing ability or potential in women so that they can think and act freely, exercises their choice and control their lives and thereby reducing discrimination and exploitation towards them. It ings about upliftment of women in social, economic and political spheres where they are able to play an equal role at par with men in society. But women who constitute half of the population in India yet they have been subjected to the oppression of patriarchal order and suffered from fewer rights and lower social status than men for centuries. This widespread discrimination and exploitation of women evoke the need for empowerment of women. In spite constitutional guarantees, enactment of laws, initiations of social reformers, efforts by the government through different schemes and programmes and U.N.O.’s directives, the equal status of women in India is not still achieved to the desired goals after 68 years of Independence. Empowerment through Education is a continuous, holistic Process with different components like psychological, Economic, Political, Social and Legal. Empowerment given its complex nature is subjected to a variety of interpretations. However its nature can be comprehended by identifying a few indicators. Through these indicators this Paper tries to explore the various possible Strategies through which Empowerment can be made possible. Empowerment can be achieved and sustained through a number of strategies like Education, Research & Document at Campaigns/Networking/Training /Media etc.

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Arigala Haritha, WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION: A HOLISTIC AND CONTINUOUS PROCESS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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