One women can change anything

Walk to Equality :- Ensuring Safety and Empowerment of Women

Introducing

A Challenge of 21st Century

Presented By :-

Aman Bansal, Amit Chimppa, Gopal Sharma, Vikas Garg & Gagan Kathuria PPIMT Hisar

What is Women empowerment?

To invest with power, especially

legal power or official authority.

To give certain

rights or authority.

To equip or supply with an ability to

women.

Women Empowerment

In General Sense :- Refers to empower women by providing itself her to access all her freedoms and opportunities.

In Specific Sense :- Refers to enhancing their position in the power structure of the society.

1. Economic Participation

2. Political empowerment

3. Educational attainment

4. Health and well-being

5. Legislative measures

Women empowerment can be seen in these sectors :

But still there is a lot of problems

Women’s Empowerment Framework

Women’s Empowerment Framework

PROCESS

Change Power

Relation

DIMENSION

Economic, Social,

Poltical , Legal

LEVELS

Individual,

Household & Community

=>Build Organizational capacity

=>Forge Participation inclusion

=>Strenghten leadership

=>Economic :

-Enchance Income

-Greater access to service

-Greater control over resources

=>Social

-Build conductive environment

-Promote equitable relation between man

and women

=>Poltical

-Enhance Participation-Increase voice and

=>Identity and develop strategies to address women’s mobility and structual barriers at all levels

Decision making

Wh

at a

re t

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mai

n p

rob

lem

s ? Women Empowerment- still an illusion of reality:-

Lack of awareness

Lack of social and economic empowerment

Lack of political will

Feebleness of accountability mechanisms

Family responsibility

Lack of gender culture

Absence of ambition for the

achievement

How to achieve it

One of the strategies is “EDUCATION” that builds a

positive self-image and boosts self-confidence among them & develops their ability to think

critically.

Promoting self-employment, through

credit & training.

Providing lean season wage employment.

Addressing minimum needs such as nutrition,

health, sanitation, housing & education.

Direct involvement of women who are likely to

be affected by development programme.

Providing saving habit among them.

Efforts & Some bright spots

Women in Uttar Pradesh have joined hands and have formed an association called as Gulabi gang

Sarva shiksha abhiyan : the flagship programme of elementary education has special focus on girl

child.

Kasturba Gandhi Swatantrata Vidyalaya: residential school for girls.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP)

Development of women and child in rural areas (DWCRA): Implemented during 1982.

Support to training & employment for women (STEP): 1987

India is also the very first country to send an all female police contingent to

participate in a UN peace keeping mission.

Crimes Against Women’s

(i) Rape (ii) Kidnapping & Abduction for specified purposes (iii) Homicide for Dowry, Dowry Deaths or their attempts (iv) Torture - both mental and physical (v) Molestation (vi) Sexual Harassment (Eve Teasing) (vii) Importation of girls (upto 21 Year of age) (viii) Dowry Prohibition Act (ix)Sati Prevention Act

Some Serious problem

• While goddess are welcomed with open arms, our doors are shut tight for girl child.

•Our sex ratio is : 923 females per 1000 males Female Abortion

• Dowry is money or values paid to the husband to be from the brides family

• A majority of problems that occur regarding Dowry occur in India

Dowry System

• It is about Sex . 44% of all rapes happen before the age of 18

• A woman is raped every 20 minutes in India Rape’s

• Getting married before attaining full mental and physical maturity.

• In rural area 70%of girls are married before they are 18

Child Marriage

• Often the victim was raped, but still viewed as unpure

• Marrying or divorce without family’s consent also common cause

Honor killing

•Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other.

•Examples include: sexual assault, stalking, intimidation, physical assault

Domestic Violence

Women are facing with this harsh reality & even it is increasing day by day in the selfish world of 21st Century.

Condition of women in India

About 10% of all the crimes committed in the country are those of women abuse.

30 lakh girl children were lost to female infanticide during 2001-2011.

A woman is raped every 20 minutes in India.

After 60 years of independence, 1 in 3 women in India are still illiterate.

Only 39.5% women in India are economically active.

Less than 40% of women give birth in a health facility.

Of the world's 1.3 billion poor

people, it is estimated that nearly 70 per

cent are women.

Between 75 and 80 per cent of the world's 27

million refugees are women and

children.

Only 28 women have been

elected heads of state or

government in this century.

Of the world's nearly one

billion illiterate adults, two-

thirds are women.

An idea to improve safety of women

• Ever increasing amount of crimes against women in the cities of Delhi and Mumbai

• Lack of sufficient deterrent at the instance of crime when it is being committed

• Failure of the police system to prevent the crime against women

• Let us create a social organization under public private partnership model dedicated especially to the safety of women and to fight against all sorts of crimes against women in the city of Delhi and Mumbai

• A creation of a parallel police system in public private partnership model dedicated to safety of women in Delhi and Mumbai

• There is no private organization in the public security domain which could co-exist with the government police departments to fight crimes against women

• We have private players in education, health care, public transport, industries, but not in public security division

• Let us create a network of security personnel and security vans throughout the city of Delhi and Mumbai especially dedicated to women safety

• It would be a 24 hours service in which private security men would be stationed at important and high crime places and security vans – similar to PCR vans – would roam the city of Delhi and Mumbai throughout 24 hours

• It would have helplines, call and sms services and would evolve gradually to include more things

The organization would have its own security personnel which would be trained to handle situation like rape, harassment, kidnaps, fights, brawls etc.; especially dedicated to crime against women.

A parallel police system – but in a social enterprise sense – dedicated especially to safety of women.

The organization would be a not-for-profit organization, could be in public private partnership model (PPP model).

It would leverage the latest technologies to fight crime and would have to get knowledge transferred from the police academies and organization from world over – FBI, Scotland Yard, London police and academic institutions dedicated to security.

It would also help the state police network in times of crisis like terrorist attacks, natural calamities and other unforeseen events where such help becomes necessary – but its main purpose would be fighting crime against women.

Not only some laws or operations are enough to kill this problem from our society. We have to Speak Out, Stand Out, Reach Out…

All We Need

References

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• Press Trust of India. (2012, October 12). India loses 3 million girls in infanticide. The Hindu. retrieved from http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-loses-3-million-girls-in-infanticide/article3981575.ece

• Ibid.

• Census. (2011). Literacy in India. Retrieved from http://www.census2011.co.in/literacy.php

• Madgavkar, A. (2012, December 30). India’s missing women workforce. The Wall Street Journal and Live Mint. Retrieved from http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/dd8OFniJdurubBOoNJeoHK/Indias-missing-women-workforce.html

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• UN Women. (n.d.). Data on Women. Retrieved from http://www.unwomensouthasia.org/media-corner/data-on-women/

• National Family Health Survey. (2005-2006). Maternal Health. Retrieved from http://hetv.org/india/nfhs/nfhs3/NFHS-3-Chapter-08-Maternal-Health.pdf

• Census. (2011). India at Glance - Population Census 2011. Retrieved from http://www.census2011.co.in/p/glance.php

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• National Crime Research Bureau of India. (2012). Crime Against Women. Retrieved from http://ncrb.nic.in/CD-CII2011/cii-2011/Chapter%205.pdf