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Feminism. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the ...
The Nari Shakti Puraskar ( lit. 'Woman Power Award') is an annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment. [1] It is the highest civilian honour for women in India, and is presented by the president of India on ...
The Gulabi Gang (from Hindi gulabi, "pink") is a female vigilante group in India. Sampat Pal Devi started the group in 2006 in Banda District, Uttar Pradesh. [1] The group is dedicated to empowering women of all castes and protecting them from domestic violence, sexual violence, and oppression. They also combat political corruption and the ...
Feminism in India is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and opportunities for women in India. It is the pursuit of women's rights within the society of India. Like their feminist counterparts all over the world, feminists in India seek gender equality: the right to work ...
The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) is an initiative launched on 1 April 2011 to offer benefits to adolescent girls in the age group of 10 to 19. It was offered initially as a pilot programme in 200 districts and offers a variety of services to help young women including nutritional supplementation and education ...
Today the phrase “women’s empowerment” has eclipsed “community empowerment” and “employee empowerment.” It, too, came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. It, too, came to ...
Ela Bhatt, founder and past president of SEWA, appreciating the fabrics at Qalandia Women's Cooperative. Self-Employed Women's Association ( SEWA ), meaning "service" in several Indian languages, is a trade union based in Ahmedabad, India, that promotes the rights of low-income, independently employed female workers. [1]
Women across economic groups in colonial era, for example, wore a single piece of cloth in hot and humid Bengal. It was called Kapod by poorer women, while the more ornate version of the same was called a Saree. The material and cost varied, but nature was the same across income and social groups (caste/class) of Hindu women.