Education: A Tool For Women Empowerment

Prepared By:

---Priyanka Verma

AcknowledgementWe are (the students of Asansol

Engineering College) very grateful to all the teachers of Asansol Engineering College for their continuous support in completing our project report. We are especially very thankful to all faculty without whose help we could not have finished this project.We express our sincere gratitude to Mr.Debabrata Das and Mr.Sovan Sen who gave us the opportunity to participate on this project, and for guiding us and pursue us to finish this project.

Index•Intoduction•Education•Women Education•Education Problems In India•Girl’s Education:A Lifeline To Development•Advantages,Disadvantages And Present State Of Women Education•Cause For Women Empowerment•Why Girls In India Are Still Missing Out On The Education They Need•Conclusion

This project is based on the topic “Education: A Tool For Women Empowerment”.This project contains vivid description about the women education,need for women education,present education status of women and how education can be a tool for women empowerment.Education is very important if we want to be self dependent person.If we want to see the world as a just and fair place where everyone is given equal opportunities,education is what we require.Empowerment means moving from enforced powerlessness to a position of power. Education is an essential means of empowering women with knowledge,skills and self confidence necessary to fully participate in the development process.Sustainable development is only possible when men and women equal opportunities to reach their potential.Women have the potential to change their own economic status and that of their communities and the countries in which they live yet usually women’s economic contribution are unrecognized,their work undervalued and their promise undernourished.Education is important for everyone ,but it is a critical area of empowerment for women and girls.This is not only because education is an entry point to opportunity but also because women’s educational achievements have positive ripple effects within the family and across generation.

Introduction

EDUCATIONEducation is very important if we want to be self depend ent person.

Education is important for everyone ,but it is a critical area of empowerment for women and girls.

Nowadays education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector,with control and funding coming from three levels: central,state,local

WOMEN EDUCATION

Education is an essential means of empowering women with knowledge,skills and self confidence necessary to fully participate in the development process.Women have the potential to change their own economic status and that of their communities and the countries in which they live yet usually women’s economic contribution are unrecognized,their work undervalued and their promise undernourished.

Education Problems in India

It is unfortunately true of our society that children are sent to school not according to their intelligence or aptitude but according to their sex.

The economic structure of rural areas is such that children, especially girls, are required to help in household work and perform their chores. Young girls have to look after their younger brothers and sisters, have to get water from the well, have to carry food to the father in the field, etc.

Girl’s education:A lifeline to developement

Education is one of the most critical areas of empowerment for women, as both the Cairo and Beijing conferences affirmed.

Offering girls basic education is one sure

way of giving them much greater power --

of enabling them to make genuine choices over the kinds of lives they wish to lead. This

is not a luxury.

Present Status of Women EducationThe present posotion of

educating a woman are irrefutable.

Education boosts a woman's self-esteem, her employment opportunities and her ability to deal with the problems of the world around her.

A right to education has been recognized by some governments. At the global level, Article 13 of the United Nations' 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of everyone to an education

Cause For Women Empowerment

The female child sex ratio (0-6 years) is 914 per 1000 males

Rural female literacy rate only 58% while rural male 78%

Women employment in urban areas is only 13.9% while in rural areas is 29.9%. With the rise in poverty, many women are forced to work in very low end and low paid jobs.

Employment of women in organized sector is less than 8%.

Women especially in the child bearing age often deficient in nutrition due to poverty. As a result the number of maternal deaths in India is one of the highest in the world and 87% of all pregnant women in India are anemic.

Why girls in india are still missing out on education they need

Meena (not her real name) didn't tell her parents when the older boys started harassing her on the hour-long walk to school from her home in Madanpur Khadar, south Delhi – grabbing her hand and shouting "kiss me" – because she knew she would get the blame, as if she had somehow encouraged them. She was right: when her family found out, they banned her from going back to school, worried about the effect on their "honour" if she was sexually assaulted. The plan now is to get her married. She is 16.

Conclusion

Education is what we need if we want an answer to our questions “whats”and “hows” and “wheres”