Women’s Empowerment: Safety Empowered !

Women’s Empowerment: Need of the Hour !

Gender disparity in the country can be tackled only through proactive intervention in areas such as economic empowerment of women, building of adequate social and physical infrastructure and improving women’s role in governance, said the President.

In today’s contemporary world which is male dominant, women need to gain the same amount of power that men have. It is high time to forget that men are the only holders of power. In India, women are still facing different obstacles/bondages in male-dominated cultures and practices. There is a serious need for revision of national policy for women empowerment and to safeguard the interests of the other half of India. Since independents some efforts were made and now I believe that Indian women are slowly getting empowered in the sectors like education, politics, the work force and even more power within their own households with changing times. The value of any civilization can be arbitrated by the position of women in that society...

Today, women are busy running in the presidential campaign. The work force is covered with intellectual women who currently hold the CEO/CMD positions at large companies which were never held by Indian women in long ago. Now women have reached a long way eventually and have discovered a new path for them to come. Women rights well talked about as human rights. The concept of feminism is very vogue. Women’s right and changes effort to win equality for women have containing women's suffrage, feminism, women's property rights, equal opportunity in work and education, and equal pay. Now, the future of women is seeking out.

Indian women is now more confident of getting better-paid professional jobs than their flagging male counterparts. Clearly, there is an excellent amount of reason for the girls to be more confident than boys and this is because of their remarkable academic feat around the nation be it JEE, PMT or UPSC. This achievement of girls is an absolute reversal of what would have been expected a generation ago.

But, an upsetting place still remains for Indian women is the negative sexual attention that women often receive. Indian societies have received notoriety for being unsafe for women. Our National capital is now regarded as rape capital of India, this is where empowerment is needed the most. Whereby the fair sex is not only being hassled and raped but incidents of immoral trafficking also are very high in some parts of our country. Worst part is this business is running under the nose of the Govt. In one of the daily headlines 70 girls from north-eastern India were rescued in the national capital, there are thousands waiting for our Govt to wake up.  Add to this the heinous practice of female feticide and infanticide wherein nearly 10 million baby girls have been killed in the last twenty years alone. In fact, the level of atrocities against women is an indicator of the erosion of our society (its a understatement) and underscores that we are a suppressed society. Clearly, safety is an obsolete word in today’s India.

It is the duty of law enforcement agencies to prevent crimes against women but they fail to solve this alone. Teamwork by people is the key to eradicating this mess. People must come forward to help in rooting out such social evils. Law enforcing agencies cannot work alone. When the people are dynamic in their drive against crimes, the police cannot remain a mute spectator though they are supposed to be the protectors of citizens. They will be forced to dispense their forgotten duties. Youth should be motivated to be socially responsible and protect women. This is the need of the hour. Everyone must think of changing society. If we all abide by the rules, women in our cities will surely be safer.

According to Hindu mythology, the word ‘Ardhanarishvara’ meaning "The Lord whose half is a woman". What is the value of a man without a woman? We shouldn’t forget that there are many temples in our country devoted to the Goddesses and men also use to visit the temples for worshiping them. We need both male and female each other. We must work all together and both needs each other to survive and flourish, no one is absolute.

I do think that women should also be in place of man in today’s society. As they are now highly qualified, make remarkable contributions to the economy through their paid work. They work in a wide variety of professions around the country. They have now forsaken their homely image and are making a major contribution to global innovation of the country. They are working in different fields with man by doing hard work.It is said that women are the pillars of the economy of the world. They have the most imperative role in the family who keep it together. A campaign by Farhan Akhtar called as MARD(Men Against Rape and Discrimination) is a great initiative towards spreading awareness about gender inequlity and rape through social media.