Women Empowerment in India – A Burning Issue

You might be listening to news, reading newspaper or magazine, you would have gone through incidents and accidents with women in India.

While any other article on women’s empowerment in India will take a look at our rich heritage and enlightened societies of the past where women were treated as equals, the concept of “India” itself evolved quite recently, relative to the sum of its parts’ histories.
But the TRUTH is that in the modern India, the woman has always been a second grade citizen, no matter what its esteemed leaders have said or done.

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The subject of empowerment of women has becoming a burning issue all over the world including India since last few decades. Many agencies of United Nations in their reports have emphasized that gender issue is to be given utmost priority. It is held that women now cannot be asked to wait for any more for equality.

Educated women now feel that there is more to life than marriage. They can get most of the things they want (income, status, identity) without marriage, while they find it harder to find a suitable accomplished mate.

This is why their marriage is delayed.

With increasing literacy among women in India, their entry into many types of work, formerly the preserve of men, women can now look upon the bearing and raising of their children not as a life’s work in itself but as an episode. It women have started taking men’s work, it could be said that men have taken over women’s.

Service Launched for Women Empowerment

1.Vaada Foundation’s team:

Until Vaada Foundation’s team began the hunt for women drivers for its Pink Auto campaign, the campaign was just a concept of women safety and women empowerment.

During the interview, Vaada realized that Pink Auto campaign isn’t just a challenge for women safety on roads but also an opportunity, in fact, a RIGHT opportunity, as they said.

2.Naveen Patnaik launches Pink Auto Service for women commuters:

A ‘Pink Auto’ service for women commuters was launched in the state capital by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
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3.Pink Auto service for women commuters launched in Ranchi: