PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
Over the past decade, gender equality and women's empowerment have been explicity recognised as key not only to the health of nations, but also to social and economic development. India's National Poplulation Policy 2000 has 'empowering women for health and nutrition' as one of its crosscutting strategic themes. Additionally, the promotion of gender and empowering of women is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals to which India is a signatory.
The pairing of the two concepts of women's empowerment and gender equality into one MDG implicity recognizes that gender equality and women's empowerment are two sides of the same coin; progress toward gender equality requires women empowerment and women's empowerment requires increases in gender equality.
Since gender inequality and women's disempowerment occur in all the different domains in which women and men interact and function, both concepts are multi- dimensional; consequently, they give rise to a large number of potential indicators. Indicators of gender equality / inequality are typically designed to compare the status of women and men on particular characteristics of interest; whereas, by definition, indicators of empowerment/ disempowerment are designed to measure roles, attitudes, and rights of women and sometimes men.
We went to Shree Shakthi Mahilla sangha and gathered information about women empowerment. We got many information about the way they help people or women in the society, facilites which are given from government and all. There are many kindergardens under Shree Shakthi Mahilla Sangha. Many women are employed by these Sangha. Women get loans from society upto 10,000 and from banks as well. Loan recieved is pre-paid by monthly term or yearly with 1% intrest. We got some other information also.
We went to many houses to give some awareness about gender equality and women empowerment and gender equality. We disturbuted pamplets about gender equality and women empowerment. We got to know that government has provided many facilities like stitching machine, loans for education, and so on.
We got many information about Gender equality and women empowerment.We had a fantastic experience while working and promoting the awareness about gender equality and women empowerment.