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Published on July 15, 2013, by Priyanka in Women Empowerment.

Each year we celebrate InternationalWomens day on March 8th with adetermination to commemorate theachievements of women, and toacknowledge the special status theydeserve in society. The significantquestion is what dierence has itmade to the position of women?Have women become really strong,and have their long term strugglesended ?

Though women have progressed ina number of spheres, yet lookingfrom a wider perspective, thesituation remains grim. According tothe statistics by CARE, out of 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around theglobe, 70% are women. Reflecting on UNESCOs medium term strategy 2008-13,gender equality has been assigned as organizations global priority. Astonishingly, twothird of the 774 million adults in the world who cannot read is women.

The context in the developing and third world countries is worse. Women here are stillsubject to honor killings, they are still denied their basic rights to education andfreedom, and face violence and abuse. It was observed in a CARE project working withadolescent girls in India, that these girls were considered as temporary people whowould cease to exist, at least for their fathers, once they are married. In many places inIndia, domestic violence is acceptable to women, and cultural and ethical implicationsare imposed on their freedom. What does that mean? It would be wrong to state thatnothing has changed as a number of local, national and international organizations areworking together to mitigate the problems, yet their is a long way to go.

Initiatives by NGOs like Jan Chetna Manch, Foundation to educate Girls Globally, TheHunger Project, STEPS Women Development Organization, in addition to the NationalMission for the Empowerment of women(NMEW) launched by the Govt. of India aresome significant steps towards the goal, and the 2011 Census have shown someimprovements too. The sex ratio in India has improved from 930 in 1971 to 940 as per2011 census. The female literacy has also increased from 18.3% in 1961 to 74% in2011, in addition to decrease in male-female literacy gap from 26.6% in 1981 to 16.7%

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in 2011.

These indicators may show improvement, however, the pace is not desirable. Womenempowerment depends on a number of factors as location, social and financial status,cultural connotations, traditions, and age. Besides the above initiatives, schemes suchas ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme), Rajiv Gandhi National CrecheScheme for Children of Working Mothers , Dhanalakshmi, Swadhar and many more arein place.

Despite these schemes, the Global Gender Gap Index observes that India needs to domuch more to improve the position of women. Persistent health, education andeconomic participation gaps are acting as main deterrents to the growth.

To conclude, still a vast number of women do not have their own life choices, andspeaking locally, nationally or globally, empowerment is still in its nascent stages.

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anjaliOctober 29, 2013 at 8:42 PM

this is a real positiive essay on women empowermenti really liked itReply

supriyaDecember 6, 2013 at 10:59 AM

got a few valuable points i was looking afteri liked it!Reply

vinuJanuary 7, 2014 at 12:31 PM

really super. i got some valied points frm ths essay for my project.Reply

anmolJanuary 11, 2014 at 3:14 PM

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for this i won first prize in the essayReply

ShreyaFebruary 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM

Data is wrong overall literacy rate in India is 74% in 2011. female literacy rate is65.46%Reply

PriyankaFebruary 26, 2014 at 11:58 AM

Hi Shreya,

Thanks for letting us know. Kindly send us the source to verify the dataand the same will be reflected in the website.

Regards,AdminReply

sweta borkarMarch 20, 2014 at 4:04 PM

very very empowering essay.loved the informationReply

KARAN VERMASeptember 19, 2014 at 9:16 PM

Hi! Priyanka this is Karan.The essay reflects a message of power.Actually imhaving a competetion, I hope ill be winning.Reply

SurajOctober 15, 2014 at 8:28 PM

The article is very good, saying about women empowerment from twosides(negative and positive) but please watch out that correct information isgiven in the stats!Reply

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