Women empowerment is the act of
providing quality education, access to opportunities and resources to enable
them to change the social structure of the society and nation. It helps in
increasing women self esteem, prestige and self confidence. Empowered women
have the positive attitudes towards family members and decision making but in
most of the countries, they are taken as economic disasters and burden.
Today's world is the age of science
and technology but women are still constant. It's because of the prevailing
traditional wrong concepts towards women since ancient days. Women empowerment in
21th century is very essential so as to forward and encourage women towards the
development of the society and nation. Still there are many backward societies
considering women as meaningless human in most of the patriarchal countries.
They are prohibited from various facilities like quality education, good health
services, nutritious food, proper care and love. They remain backward in whole
life and they are not given any chances to adopt these facilities. Example;
involving in social works, working in
banks, offices. They have to be bounded by four domestic walls throughout the
life. Involving in social meetings and activities are not taken good by their
family members. Male have always been forwarded as society supports and
encourage them. As a male, female can also perform any sorts of activities and
go hand in hand with male. Male have higher wages than of female for doing the
same work as it is also a kind of domination and gender based violence. A well
educated woman can be a good and skilled technical human resources required for
the country like doctor, nurse, social workers and engineer if all facilities
made available for them. As strong human resources, they play an important role
in building of the nation economically and socially. They can make a different
identity in the society but in different parts of the world, still women have
to suffer from sexual violence, psychological violence and physical violence
like slaps, biting and discrimination from the family member because they are
economically weak. Even in 21th century, the condition of the women is very
critical. Many women die each year in the world because of pre-mature
pregnancy, anemia and HIV/AIDS as they are exploited. So, there are various
measures to overcome such situations. Women can be given income generating
skills to earn livelihood and knowledge on reproductive rights. So, they are
able to decide to have the limited number of children, use appropriate family
planning methods, birth spacing and safe motherhood. Empowered women are able
to seek health care service during pregnancy and bear safe motherhood. They
visit health centers after delivery for checkup of the new born child. Such
women are likely attracted towards small family. They can be able for decision
making in the family and help in controlling of the growing population of the
world.
Empowered women play a vital role in
the family, society and nation. They can maintain the family in a systematic
way and earn money employing in income generating skills. Women should be
motivated and supported by the society and country to change the face of the narrowed
minded societies. The status of women is not comparable with men because they
have also the capability to combat socially, economically and politically in
the country.
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