Empowerment of women in India

Who is a woman? The most wonderful creature in earth who serves a remarkably varying role in all aspects of life such as home maker, wife, mother, daughter, employer etc. She fills her family and society with love and care. She is backbone of every family. Though she plays crucial role in all her surroundings there is hesitation in giving authority to her. What makes her down a step? What is empowerment? The greater access to knowledge and resources, greater autonomy in decision making, greater ability to plan their lives, greater control over the circumstances that influence their lives and finally factors which would free them from the shackles of custom beliefs and practices. Unless they themselves become conscious of the oppression meted out to them and show initiative to push forward it would not be possible to change their status much. Empowerment of women in India is to be viewed from pre historic period. It is evident from history that when prehistoric men go for hunting it is the woman who precedes the crew. Women were given high status in that period. After that status of women prevailed in the same way? The answer is surely not. During the sands of time the status level of women and their authority gradually decreases. All the creatures are equal in front of nature. Then why there is deviation in giving rights to women? What are the reasons for it? First and foremost the reason behind this fact is the social structure we follow that evolved during so many years back. It always a practice that men were treated a point higher than women. Let’s start from family, it is obvious that most of the decision taken by the male member and women just a person who agree with them. The rights of women were suppressed.This evil must be taken into account. Government should proper action against this violence. To root out this evil it must be seen from family level. We are in a position to educate our children about equality of women, which will surely reflect in future generation. We hope for India where debating of such empowerment of women becomes unnecessary.