The Perspectives of Women's Empowerment in the Current Socio-Cultural Setting: Issues and Challenges
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Women's self-worth is a key component of empowerment. The goal of women's empowerment is to provide women equal opportunities in all spheres of life, regardless of caste, creed, or colour. Women's empowerment has many facets and is difficult to measure. It includes all of the intricate relationships, duties, privileges, and statuses associated with being male or female in a particular community or culture. This entails encouraging and advising them on how to recognize and address their areas of weakness. Within India's Millennium Development Goals, empowering women is one of the important goals set by the government. This research article's main goal is to know the degree of women's empowerment by determining how capable they are of making decisions for their households, evaluating their capacity to make economic decisions, and assessing their freedom of movement to provide recommendations and ideas for enhancing women's empowerment in India. The cornerstone of women's empowerment, prosperity, progress, and welfare is education. As Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said, the education of a woman benefits her family as a whole. Women's empowerment is mostly dependent on education, which enables them to fully engage in the social, economic, and political realms. Nonetheless, especially in developing nations, women continue to encounter substantial obstacles in their pursuit of an education
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