STUDY ON VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AT NAGOTHNE TOWN OF DIST- RAIGAD

While discussing on the topic of Empowerment of women one should must know the meaning of empowerment ,which means increasing the spiritual ,political,social or economic strength of individuals & communities.It also includes encouraging & developing the skills for self sufficiency with a focus on eliminating the future need for charity or welfare in the individuals of the group .The process can be difficult to start & to implement effectively ,but there are many examples of empowerment projects which have succeeded. Sociological empowerment often addresses members of groups that social discrimination process have often excluded from decision making processes through discrimination based on disability ,race,ethinicity,religion or gender .To abolish the gender based discrimination women’s empowerment is must.A woman has the right to happiness ,the right to know ,the right to make choices that affect her life & the right to have her opinion respected regarding her own body & her place in the family & in society.A woman has a right to respect within her family ,the community & society.An empowered is free from enslavement,free from mental ,physical or moral abuse from her family,social group or nation she enjoysthe right to develop herself to her full potential,spiritually,intellectually,artistically,socially& politically according to her choice. It is necessary to confront age old patriarchal or primitive social attitudes that consider a women to be less important than a man. She has been deprived of basic human ,social & political rights for many centuries .Society can no longer justfy these activities & their practices & behaviours.Our civilization has suffered & become damaged as a lack of this understanding .This programme on values & spirituality seeks to establish that empowered women are essential to bring balance & harmony into the world.Women need to claim their rightful position of equality & complementarity with men in order to restore equilibrium in society . Social development is obstructed by primitive patriarchal social attitudes .People who hold them need to recognize the legally defined rights of women in Indian society .An attainment of human rights is an effort for human rights to achieve. Women’s empowerment is a vast subject ,I will study selectively on components of Education, Awareness of legal rights & political involvement will help in women’s empowerment. History of women in India has been eventful in modern India .Women have adorned high offices in India including that of President ,Prime Minister ,Speaker of the Loksabha ,Leader of Opposition etc. The current President of India is women.