Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Dr. G. Sandhya Rani

Abstract :

Vocational training enables adolescent women to earn an income and build crucial life skills. Woman in general lack access to financial assets and have limited opportunities to avail proper education, knowledge and skills necessary for a good standard of living. In adequate policy frame works and inequitable gender discriminations existing in the society act as obstacles to women’s overall development especially economic independence. Financial assistance, life skills, employment and social support strategies play a vital role in deciding the empowerment of women. In India the female work force participation is less compared to male work force. It is 26–28% in organized sector and 44% in unorganized sector as per 2011 census in the group of 25–54 years The workforce development or the employment strategies in our country are not according to the need of the job market Due to globalization innumerable opportunities are open for skilled persons. But the supply is not at all matching the growing demand. Since women occupy 50 percent of the world population it is very much essential to provide necessary skills to them as per market requirements. As majority of women are from rural areas it is necessary to provide vocational training skills using technologies suitable to their requirements and make them to utilize resources available in their surrounding areas. This requires serious initiatives to be adopted by the government to design need based training programmes. At the same time proper motivation and effective implementation of the programmes also very necessary. At present though the State and Central Governments have been offering some innovative programmes to provide vocational skills to youth especially women, due to lack of awareness they are not fully successful. With this background this paper highlights the need for Vocational Training to women in different skills.

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VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT, Dr.G. Sandhya Rani PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019

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