Author: Mr. Chandan Maji
DOI Link :: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/04.2024-19728354/BIJMRD/Vol -2 / 2 (1)/2024/A21/Chandan Maji
Abstract: “There is no chance of the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on one wing.”
– Swami Vivekananda.
‘WOMEN EMPOWERMENT’ refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender or economic strength of individuals and communities of women. Women’s empowerment in India is heavily dependent on many different variables that include geographical location (urban / rural) educational status social status (caste and class) and age. Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. Women empowerment involves the building up of a society, a political environment, wherein women can breathe without the fear of oppression, exploitation, apprehension, discrimination and the general feeling of persecution which goes with being a woman in a traditionally male dominated structure.
Keywords: Women’s Empowerment, upliftment, violence.