The Realization of Gender Equality VIA Economic Empowerment of Women in West Bengal

Author(s): Mili Chatterjee and Dr. Jayanta Mete

Abstract:

Education and Employment occupy top priority amongst various measures, taken to improve the status of women in India. A situational analysis of social and economic status of women reflect less than satisfactory achievement in all most all important human development indicators such as education employment health etc. Education backwards is a major reason for the women lagging behind (Valsamma Antony 2005). The national commission on status of women (1975) status, “denial of education and and early marriage prevented the development of personality and nationality of women. Stinted and crippled personality affected the harmony of the family atmosphere, working the bonds of family” Mahajon opines “Moran more educated women are taking up new occupational roles. Employment and income provide them with recognition, status of scene of achievement and ensure for them and quality of status with men”. The disadvantage situation of women in the employment exclude them from the structure of decision making of power. So education employment and empowerment and the true vital weapons that have been recognised as powerful tools in ensuring the up liftmen of women, with education comes employment and with this comes economic freedom, upon which the edifice of empowerment is built, only when this achieved, can we hope for a transformation in the feudalistic pattern of society in India. In recognise of the fact, the present study attempted to determine the employment status of women. It also attempted to find out the relationship between employment and women empowerment.

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