LEGAL RIGHTS FOR GIRLS & Women, Development, Women empowerment, Safety, Protection and Welfare under the Constitution


The principle of gender equality is enshrined in the Indian Constitution in its Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles. The Constitution not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Gender disparity manifests itself in various forms, the most obvious being the trend of continuously declining female ratio in the population in the last few decades. Social stereotyping and violence at the domestic and societal levels are some of the other manifestations. Discrimination against girl children, adolescent girls and women persists in parts of the country. What is Women Empowerment?In the simplest of words it is basically the creation of an environment where women can make independent decisions on their personal development as well as shine as equals in society. Women want to be treated as equals so much so that if a woman rises to the top of her field it should be a commonplace occurrence that draws nothing more than a raised eyebrow at the gender. This can only happen if there is a channelized route for the empowerment of women. Thus it is no real surprise that women empowerment in India is a hotly discussed topic with no real solution looming in the horizon except to doubly redouble our efforts and continue to target the sources of all the violence and ill-will towards women.Education:While the country has grown from leaps and bounds since its independence where education is concerned, the gap between women and men is severe. While 82.14% of adult men are educated, only 65.46% of adult women are known to be literate in India. Not only is an illiterate women at the mercy of her husband or father, she also does not know that this is not the way of life for women across the world. Eradicating this gap and educating women about their real place in the world is a step that will largely set this entire movement rolling down the hill to crash and break the wall of intolerance, negligence and exploitation. Health & SafetyThe health and safety concerns of women are paramount for the well being of a country, and is an important factor in gauging the empowerment of women in a country. However there are alarming concerns where maternal healthcare is concerned. Poverty and illiteracy add to these complications with local quacks giving ineffective and downright harmful remedies to problems that women have. The empowerment of women begins with a guarantee of their health and safety.IT May not be out of place to mention here “Women in Vedic Culture”, and “Status of Women in Vedic and Post –Vedic period”,ie., Male and Female, the two basic components of our human Society, depends upon each other and each one of them constitutes about half of the population. We find that man and woman have established as the two wheels of a Chariot. The Rig-Vedic Society was a free society. The Aryans evidently preferred male child to female child. However, Education was equally open for boys and girls and Girls studied the Veda and fine arts.Women had a very significant and reversed stature as per the Vedas. Manusmiriti says “Wherever women are given their due respect, even the deities like to reside, and where they are not respected, all action remain unfruitful. There is saying, “Where women are worshipped, there the Gods dwell” Or where the women are happy there will be prosperity. In fact the direct quotes from the Manu-smriti explains as follows:Women must be honoured and adorned by their Fathers, brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare. Where women are honored, there the Gods are pleased; but where they are not honored, no sacred rite yields…

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