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This paper deals with Women Empowerment problems and poverty is frequently given the face of a woman, making it fashionable to evolve gender sensitive development schemes based onwomen empowerment. The huge study of nearly 94% of India's population done by Drez andothers looks at female literacy and its negative and statistically significant impact on child mortality. This paper also throws light on the strategies adopted to empower women. A recent policy research report by the World Bank (2001a), identifies gender equality both as a development objective in itself, and as a means to promote growth, reduce poverty and promotebetter governance. A similar dual rationale for supporting women's empowerment has beenarticulated in the policy statements put forth at several high level international conferences in the past decade. The questions of power are interlinked and we understand that what is necessary is both objective power in terms of economic resources, laws, institutional roles and norms held by others as well as subjective power in terms of self-efficacy and entitlements. Empowerment of women is closely related to formal and informal sources of education. To measure women's empowerment now GEM takes 3 indicators, women's participation in economic, political and professional activities. Within political power what is measured is mainly women in parliament, judiciary or in local bodies. Women's empowerment or disempowerment has to be seen in all areas physical, socio cultural religious, political legal and economic. |
