Economically:

• Limited access to cash and credit ( according to 2012 World Bank study, only 26% of women in India

have an account with the formal financial institutions).

• Limited access to employment in formal and informal sector ( employment of women in organised

sector is less than 8%, in urban areas is only 13.9%, while in rural areas 29.9%.

Socially:

• Security of women in India

• Early marriage ( nearly 60% of married girls bear children before they are 19yrs often deficient in

nutrition which directly accounts to 15-20% of all maternal deaths in India. 87% of all pregnant women are

anemic)

• Disproportionate sex ratio( our current sex ratio is 923 females/1000 males)

Politically:

• Highly unequal access to political rights( less than 8% of parliamentary seats, less than 6% cabinet

positions, less than 4% of seats in high courts and supreme court have been occupied by women.

• The average %age of women representation in the parliament, assemblies, and the counsel of

ministers taken together has been around only 10%. )

Women Empowerment

Economic Factors

Microfinance programs Management and decision making

Non-Economic Factors

1. Behavioural

2. Communication

3. Mobility

Rattling characterstics of Women Jeopardy:

• Lack of Awareness

• Illiteracy.

• lack of training.

• More discrimination between men and women.

.

India consists of 614.4 million female however crime against

women is rising day by day

• Its seen that Kerala is the state that have maximum crime. • Although there is an increase in expenditure on women safety, but the safety rate is falling down.

PROBLEM SOLUTION

IMPLEMENTATION

1. Lack of employment •Private sectors organization, business

chain work and NGOs could be supported

to strengthen the demand for gender

sensitive laws regarding inheritance and

ownership, and conduct awareness raising

programs on woman rights to decent

employment.

•Other modernity is to support networking

and facilitate organization among women.

• Government should focus on creation of

women empowerment fund which

includes:

• women entrepreneurs on principles of

corporate, savings and credits.

• business plan preparation and

bookkeeping.

• Marketing and technical understanding

of income generation package.

•Formation of a new

committee which will

focus on providing funds

for employment.

Allocation of resources

Starting from

metropolitan cities to

rural areas

•Minimum expenditure

required is 300Cr. per

annum.

• the expenditure made

should be in the ratio of

7:3 between the Central

Government and State

Government.

PROBLEM SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

2. Lack of housing facilities for

single women.

•Providing housing facilities to single working

women would solve the hindrance of security

issues.

e.g. By making 50 flats for women or 60

apartments in an area.

•Proper sanitation and dinking facilities.

• By allocation of funds to various

regions based on the following

weightage:

75% weightage to single working

women

25% to below poverty line women

• funding can be allocated on cost

sharing basis between the Central and

Sate Government in the 75%:25% ratio.

P ROBLEM SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

Lack of proper health facility

and sanitation.

• By providing free or lower value iodine to

pregnant women, especially in rural sector

because:

20% of child’s brain development occurs

during pregnancy and iodine is the major

component.

• Involvement of women in maintenance and

development programs especially for the rural

areas for providing provision such as, proper

drinking water facilities and proper sanitation

• Putting up stalls having lower cost

iodine in various areas.

• By providing proper nutrition to

women after the child birth.

• Tying up with WHO for proper health

facilities.

• Government should start dumping

system in rural areas.

PROBLEM SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

Lack of enterprise development,

supply chain and marketing

practices.

• By expanding business relationships with

women-owned enterprises, including small

businesses, and women entrepreneurs.

• By supporting the gender-sensitive solutions

to credit and lending barriers.

• By asking business partners to respect the

company’s commitment to advancing equality.

• By respecting the dignity of women in all

marketing and other company materials.

• By ensuring that the company products,

services and facilities provided are not used

for human trafficking or labour or any sexual

exploitation.

Creation of trade union confederation

of India that should implement a

programme to improve the rights of

women market vendors which includes

collective bargaining with the

municipalities to provide a safe

working environment and prevent

sexual harassment from customers,

promote management training, provide

business premises at affordable rates,

improve knowledge on legal rights.

The women incubator can be set up to

benefit female micro and small scale

enterprises through a 15cr investment

from the Indian government and this

would be beneficial around 50 women

owned businesses and a result close to

3000 jobs can be created.

PROBLEM

• Lack of safety and security issues.

SOLUTION

• Women should be included in the decision-making when the policies are being created by the Government. In this way, we will be in a better position to fulfil their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents especially, women and girls.

IMPLEMENTATION

• The national Government should adopt women safety audits whereby local women identify safety and security conditions in their neighbourhood, which are incorporated into urban planning.

• Government should appoint women communities which shall identify safety risk in ten of the cities’ high-risk slums.

• There should be partnership between the UN Women and the States and the local Government organization. In this efforts will focus on collecting local data on female political participation, and expanding successful safe cities activities.

• It would increase women participation in various sectors.

• it would increase women access to education, health and justice and will generate jobs

sooner.

• The crime rate will fall at a big scale.

• It helps in promoting equality through community initiatives and advocacy.

• Women’s participation in labour force grew faster, the economy will experience the largest

reduction and poverty rates.

• Women farmers can access the resources they need, their production increases, making it less

likely that their families are hungry and malnourished.

Measure to Understand,

Understand to Communicate,

Communicate to Change.

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