Volume-X, Issue-VI, November 2024 |
Women Empowerment: Meaning, Approaches, and Idicators Arup Kr Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Gour Mahavidyalya, Mangalbari, West Bengal, India |
Received: 19.11.2024 | Accepted: 28.11.2024 | Published Online: 30.11.2024 | Page No: 150-159 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.10.issue.06W.016 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
In the mid-1980s, the concept of empowerment began to gain popularity in development-related fields, especially in terms of women. Empowerment tends to represent the terms 'public welfare, development, mass participation, poverty alleviation' in describing development goals in grassroots-level policies and programs. Women in our society are still not known for their own identity. They are known or identified by their male administrators inside and outside the family. Empowerment has become a major solution to social problems such as high population growth, environmental degradation, and low status of women. At the same time, the concept of empowerment also emerges as a theoretical and practical conflict. In the 1990s, when terms such as 'participation', 'consultation', 'partnership' etc. began to enter development thinking, the emphasis shifted to an 'enabling' perspective. In this context, the concept of women's empowerment becomes more popular. Keywords: Women’s Empowerment, Power, Feminists, Approach, Indicators, Resources, Control. |