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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA: FACTS AND REALITIES

    1 Author(s):  DR SHRADHA CHANDRA

Vol -  11, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 37 - 42  (2020 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

This paper endeavors to dissect the status of Women Empowerment in India and features the Issues and Challenges of Women Empowerment.Today the strengthening of ladies has gotten one of the most significant worries of 21stcentury. Be that as it may, essentially ladies strengthening is as yet a figment of the real world. We see in our everyday life how ladies become exploited by different social shades of malice. Ladies Empowerment is the fundamental instrument to extend ladies' capacity to have assets and to settle on key life decisions. Strengthening of ladies is basically the procedure of upliftment of monetary, social and political status of ladies, the customarily oppressed ones, in the general public. It is the way toward guarding them against all types of viciousness. The investigation depends absolutely from auxiliary sources. The investigation uncovers that ladies of India are moderately sabotaged and they appreciate to some degree lower status than that of men regardless of numerous endeavors attempted by Government. It is discovered that acknowledgment of inconsistent sex standards by ladies are as yet winning in the general public. The investigation finishes up by a perception that entrance to Education, Employment and Change in Social Structure are just the empowering variables to Women Empowerment.

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