WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND RUAL DEVELOPMENT: POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES
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Women empowerment and Rural Development is a debatable subject. At earlier time they were getting equal status in all with men. From early twenty century (National Movement) their statuses have been changed slowly and gradually. After independence of India, the constitutional makers and national leaders strongly demand equal social position of women with men. The past three decades have witnessed a steadily increasing awareness of the need to empower women through measures to increase social economic and political equity, the border access to fundamental human rights, improvement in nutrition, basic health and education. Along with awareness of the subordinate status of women has come the concept of gender as an overarching socio-cultural variable, seem in relation to other factors, such as race, class, age and ethnicity. Gender equality refers to that stage of human social development at which “the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of individuals will not be determined by the fact of being born male or female”, in other words, a stage when both men and women realize their full potential. Today we have seen the women occupied the respectable positions in all walks of the fields. Yet, they have not absolutely freed some discrimination and harassment of the society. Therefore, each and every one should be careful to promote the women status.
Standing on the threshold of the twenty-first century as one looks back a question that confronts us is where indeed are the women in India in terms of empowerment and socio-economic emancipation? Even a cursory look over a century of development and progress will show that a major component of the status quo is the entrenchment of patriarchal values in the Indian social structure and the acquiescence of women themselves to such a value orientation. However, in the changing scenario of the Indian society efforts has been made to empower women so that they can not only joins hand in making important decisions in the family or society but also hold the public office for development.
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