Empowerment empowerment as a multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power in people for use in their own lives‚ their communities and in their society‚ by acting on issues they define as important‚ increasing the spiritual‚ political‚ social‚ educational‚ gender‚ or economic strength of individuals and communities. Empowerment is then the process of obtaining the basic opportunities for marginalized people‚ either directly
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Empowerment has multiple‚ interrelated and interdependent dimensions- economic‚ social‚ cultural and political. It can be understood in relation to resources‚ perceptions‚ Relationship and power. But what does women empowerment mean? Women empowerment generally has five components : firstly‚ women’s sense of self worth; secondly‚ their right to have the power of control their own lives‚ both within and outside home; and lastly‚ their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IS GETTING A REALITY!!!! India‚ which is a conglomerate of diverse ethnic‚ linguistic and geographical features‚ today is at the cusp of a paradigm change in its growth and its position in the world. However‚ India is even known for its sobriquet ’male-chauvinistic nation’. Indian myths describe our country as ‘Mother India’ who is a woman that serves as the mother of every Indian. Famous American novelist of 19th century‚ Louisa May Alcott correctly opines- "When women are the
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Since the older times‚ women have been treated as second rate citizens of all across the globe. The situation is almost the same everywhere-irrespective of the developed country or the developing country-caste‚ community‚ colour or creed a position which is comparable in many ways‚ with that of racial minorities. Women have been relegated to secondary position despite the fact that they numerically constitute about half the world population today. This situation has caused immense loss to their
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CHAPTER 8- EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION Empowerment-is any process that provides greater autonomy to employees through the sharing of relevant information and the provision of co9ntrol over factors affecting job performance. Five broad approaches to empowerment: 1. Helping employees achieve job mastery 2. Allowing more control 3. Providing successful role models. 4. Using social reinforcement and persuasion. 5. Giving emotional support. Participation -is the mental and emotional
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Whenever I am asked about women empowerment‚ my mother’s experience in raising us would immediately pop in my head. She probably lived by this quote to be able to overcome all the struggles she faced in life raising her beautiful children‚ to come out triumphant against all the obstacles she had to conquer for us. This is a perfect example of women empowerment for me because it proves that a woman can also provide for the family while taking care of the children. Most importantly‚ she serves as an
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"When women are the advisor‚ the Lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it and if it succeeds‚ they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if fails‚ they generously give herself the whole".- Louisa May Alcott India today is at the cusp of a paradigm change in its growth and its position in the world. We (both men and women) must act decisively to capture this opportunity. We need to think big
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Together We Can Do IT! The December 16‚ 2012‚ Nirbhaya gang-rape incident in Delhi is still fresh in our memories. What it triggered off was the outpour of men and women (young and old) on the streets to draw attention of the law enforcing agencies and the government machinery that such incidents will not be tolerated and rapists be accorded death penalty due to the gravity of the crime. Accordingly revision in the anti-rape bill is in the offing‚ with stricter punishment for the rapists‚ including
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Education: A catalyst for women empowerment James A Ojob 93 REVIEW ARTICLE Education: A catalyst for Women Empowerment in Nigeria James A Ojobo* Abstract This paper examines the place of education as a catalyst for women empowerment in Nigeria. The paper‚ using primary and secondary sources of data‚ has shown that in spite of all the laudable goals and objectives of education‚ Nigerian women still suffer a lot of constraints and inhibitions which militate against their personal and
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The myth of “education and empowerment” has affected public schools tremendously in a sense that everyone is being divided‚ mostly by class‚ which lowers the confidence of our students today. Yes‚ there are teachers who cater to students‚ stay after class‚ and provide them with one on one tutoring and even take time from their lunch to offer extra assistance in any subject. However‚ there are other public schools in which teachers do not take the initiative to listen and understand when their student
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