The National Policy for Women Empowerment

Empowerment of women is a whole process to create a relationship between the social and political ideal framework of society. In this process, women realize their rights, strength, choices, and resources in decision making both in-home and outside the home. A woman gets empowerment only when there is an improvement in the status of her in society.

It frames the rules related to all the injustices against women in a global society. The country has witnessed many ups and downs of women’s dignity. Where it has seen women receiving external help to improve their life there only, it has also seen women working for the development of society.

The National Policy for Women Empowerment was framed in 2001. It suggests proper prescription of strategies, development, and empowerment of women with policy. After this policy came into light, the technology and information operation has to attain high economic growth. Also, due to this growth, women are getting fresh opportunities and scopes in the job, agriculture, and business sector.

The vision of the policy

To create a society where women gain their full potential and can participate equally in all areas of life and bring a social change.

The mission of the policy

To create a productive foundation to regulate the process of modifying programs, policies, and practices that will bring equal opportunities and rights for women in society, community, family, and workplace.

Objectives of the policy

To create an independent economic, socio-culture, and political environment where women can enjoy the de jure and de facto rights of the constitution and use their potential.
Concentrating on all over the development of the project, process, actions, and programs.
To create a positive approach towards women based on women’s health for quality, affordability, and appropriate treatment.
Improving the educational quality of girls or student women in India.
Improving the scope of opportunities and the participation of women in the economic sector.
Equally participating in social, political, and economic areas including, governance and decision making.
To transform the discriminatory mindset and societal attitude towards women when involving with the community consists of men.
To create a legal-judicial gender delicate matters.
To remove all kinds of violence against women by firm policies, programs, legislation, institutions, and community engagement.
Empowering and developing the status of women from the underprivileged and marginalized groups.
Encouraging collaborative participation and partnership for the empowerment of women.
To monitor, evaluate, audit the data system to fill the gender gaps.

Vital Areas

Health and nutrition

To recognize the unfair decision in the family planning government is trying to create a gender transformative strategy. It will shift the focus from female sterilization to male sterilization. Excluding maternal health, the government will also focus on other health problems of women like all kinds of communicable and non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, and priority to give attention to proper strategies and intervention.

Education

The government will encourage there-primary education of girl child. For this, they will take the initiative to strengthen the Anganwadi Centres along with the community and the parents. They are also making efforts to increase enrollment and retention of the teenage girls in school and post-primary classes. To perform this gender friendly provision facilities including, higher recruiting of lady teachers and renovating girls toilets are in process. Along with this, it will put efforts to provide a supportive environment in schools and colleges.

Economy

There are a majority of women in India who deal with poverty her life every day. This relationship between poverty and gender act like dynamics. These dynamics also support the wage gap in urban and rural, agriculture and non-agriculture jobs, and casual and regular employment. Women work hard in their everyday life, serving elders of their family, children, and other household chores. All this bulk of work is unpaid and thankless. The government will make an effort to recognize all the domestic work of women in terms of economic and social value. The government will also survey access The National Policy for Women 2016 for gender inequality in household work and taking responsibility for strategies to accumulate unpaid labor with principle programs.

Governance and their decision making

Encouraging all the women to participate in civil service, judiciary and, in-corporate jobs through proper guidance and counsellings, coaching, provisions of financial incentive, and quotas.

Emerging problems

The government is making efforts to create an all-over liberal society from women based on family care, technological cyber-bully, reproductive decisions, marriage, and decision-making. But the mindset, community, religion, and poverty come in the middle of the progress and effort.

Conclusion

In the coming years, India will gain power significantly from its demographic dividend as the share of its empowering workforce and, it will increase in numbers as compared to the aging population of other countries.