Women's Empowerment

Education is the key factor for women’s empowerment, prosperity, development and welfare. Discrimination of women from womb to tomb is age old phenomena in most of the societies. There is continued inequality and vulnerability of women in all sectors and women oppressed in all spheres of life. They need to be empowered in all walks of life. In order to fight against the socially constructed gender biases, women have to fight against the system that requires more strength. Such strength comes from the process of empowerment and empowerment can come from the education. Hence, it is of foremost importance to raise the level of educated women.

Empowerment can be viewed as means of creating an environment where one can take decisions and make choices

Education as means of empowerment of women can bring about a positive outlook. It is therefore, important for the socioeconomic and political progress. Education profoundly makes difference in the lives of women. As women empowerment is a global issue, various discussions on women’s political right are taken as the main agenda of many formal and informal campaigns worldwide. In 1985 the concept of women empowerment was introduced at the international women conference at Nairobi. Education allows women to responds to different challenges, to confront the traditional role and to change life. So we cannot neglect the importance of education in reference to women empowerment. With the increasing change in women education, the empowerment of women has been recognized as the core issue in determining the status of women. To make women empowered we mostly have to concentrate upon the women’s education. By which it will force on women’s empowerment. According to the United Nation’s Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) the term women’s empowerment

Education has direct linkages with labor market participation. The extent and nature of labor market makes the fact that the participation by women is an important indicator of women’s position in a society. Here are a few case studies of women workers in India; most of them associated their poor labor market status to their lack of education. It is especially clear that even a few years of education affects the engagement in labor market of actualization substantially. It is also evident that with education the engagement of women in jobs demanding higher levels of skills increases while the job with low-skill requirements decline. Education determines the nature of the job, the better educated being engaged in so-called elite jobs, the unemployment rates rise with the level of education, being highest for the most educated ones. The reality is that the gender gaps in economic participation changed very minimal in the last 20 years and are as high as 50 per cent in South Asia and 23 per cent in South-East Asia and the Pacific. In this region woman more than man is engaged as family workers or in vulnerable employment. The gender wage gap which is 20 per cent at the regional level is also