Gendered Empowerment: Programs, Policies, and Consequences
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https://doi.org/10.48001/978-81-966500-4-9-2Keywords:
Gender Equality, Women Empowerment, Discriminatory Gender Norms, Positive Masculinities, Gender StatisticsAbstract
Gender equality is a basic human right and an essential foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. While there has been progress in recent decades, the goal of achieving gender equality by 2030 is still out of reach.From a gender perspective, women's empowerment is confronting and changing the political, economic, and social structures that sustain gender inequality in order to advance women's rights, equality of opportunity, and autonomy. This method acknowledges that gender plays a significant role in power dynamics and that resolving gender power disparities is a necessary step toward empowering women. Efforts aimed at empowering women from this standpoint encompass enhancing their access to social services, healthcare, education, employment, and political representation. It also entails promoting good masculinities that uphold gender equality and opposing discriminatory gender norms. Building a just, equitable, and inclusive society for people of all genders is the ultimate goal. More funding for gender statistics is required because, at the moment, just over half of the information required to track Goal 5 is accessible. The secondary material used in this qualitative study came from government documents, books, journals, websites, and research articles. The researcher looks at women's empowerment from a gender perspective, concentrating on the results of different policies and programs in India.
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