3. WHAT IS WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT?
The process of women becoming
stronger and more confident,
especially in controlling one's life
and claiming one's rights.
4. 19th Century:
• Advent of the Industrial Revolution, lead to the
employment of women as workers.
• Women were 15% of the total work force
• Two-thirds of teachers were women.
• Women could also be found in unexpected places
as iron and steel works ,mines sawmills oil wells
and refineries etc.
6. • Their role was not defined as workers or money
makers.
• The society started educating more and more young
women.
• In the United States, it was World War I that made
space for women in the workforce, amongst other
economical and social influences.
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8. • The increase of women in the labor force of Western
countries gained momentum in the late 19th century.
• The reasons for this big jump in the 1970s has been
attributed to widespread access to the birth control pill.
• The Quiet Revolution- not a "big bang" revolution;
• It happened and is continuing to happen gradually.
9. A Waitress in Seattle
Women working as
customer operators.
10. Women in Today’s Indian Scenario.
• Findings of the National Sample Survey (68th
Round) results indicated that in 2011-2012,
24.8 of every 100 women worked in rural
areas. The corresponding number when it
came to men was 54.3.
• In urban areas, to every 54.6 employed men,
there were just 14.7 working women.
11. THE GLASS CEILING EFFECT
• An invisible barrier that keeps a given
demographic (typically applied to women) from
rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.
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14. THE PAY GAP
• Amid a raging debate over gender pay gap globally,
a new report shows the figure for India stands as
high as 27 per cent, where men earned a median
gross hourly salary of Rs. 288.68, while women
earned Rs, 207.85 per hour.
• Preference for male employees over female
employees
• Statistics show that it will take at least 70 years from
now for the gap to close.
22. It is a behavior where unwelcome sexual
advances, requests for sexual favors, and
other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual
nature occur at workplace.
Workplace sexual harassment is one of the
most difficult and insidious issue to tackle,
because victims are so often in a position of
vulnerability, afraid of damaging their carrers
or even losing their jobs altogether.
SEXUAL HARRASMENT AT WORKPLACE
45. GOVERNMENT POLICIES
EMPOWERING WORKING WOMEN
• Support To Training & Employment Program
For Women (STEP)
• Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
• Priyadarshini
• Gender Budgeting and Economic
Empowerment of Women
• The Scheme of Working Women Hostel