The term ‘women empowerment’ has become popular after 1980s. It refers to the process of strengthening women who have been suffering from various inequalities and gender discrimination. It refers to the process of providing power to woman to become independent and assume power to control her own life and to determine her own conditions. It also refers to the process of providing equal rights, opportunities, responsibilities and power positions to women so that they able to play a role at par with men in society.
In this modern era, women need to gain the same amount of power that men have. There is inequality and vulnerability of women in all spheres of life; they need empowerment in every step of life. In India, women are still facing different
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Once Mahatma Gandhi said that the status of the women will not change merely by bringing legislations; it must be supported by change in the women’s social circumstances and situations and also men’s sexiest attitude to women. Recently, the Supreme Court has struck down a 60 year old Mumbai film industry gender discriminatory norm that said women can only be hair dressers and not make-up artists, a designation kept for men.
Safety for women is big concern for Women; they receive negative sexual attention and comments from males at every walk of life. Indian societies have received notoriety for being unsafe for women and even for baby girls. The incidents of immoral trafficking rape, stalking also are very
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ICT has changed the communication paradigm totally, Web2.0 made it no longer difficult to reach a large number of people at lightening fast speed. New media has played a significant role in the empowerment of women with the help of Information and Communication Technology. Out of the total 150 million internet users in around 60 million women in India are online and using the Internet to manage their life. Availability of internet in homes, offices, cyber cafes and even in pocket through smart phones, empower women for a variety of things. The development of New Media has enabled the women to participate in the current affairs of the state, which starts from the society work to education, health, governance and so on. New Media is playing a role of powerful tool for gender empowerment in India. A rapid and dramatically expanded growth witnessed in the ICT sector since the late 1980 's. The creation of different websites that focus on women empowerment in terms of education, literacy, health, lifestyle and many more areas have been proliferated. Today it is possible, to find anything related to empowerment by typing keyword searches using a reliable internet browser. When internet usage started in India, it was mainly for checking mails and replying. Today a women user is enthusiastic about the world of opportunities online. Smartphone have become the primary medium,