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WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT: IS LAW A PANACEA OR A PROBLEM?

    1 Author(s):  MS. RAMYA S. ISHWARYA R

Vol -  7, Issue- 6 ,         Page(s) : 231 - 238  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

In the ongoing effort to empower women, one of the significant step is the conferring of Property Rights to women. Empowerment is defined as a strategy to reconstruct the social environment where women live and play or enact their roles. Its main objective is to enable women from all classes, castes, regions and educational background to become economically and socially vocal and to develop the ability to take independent decisions about their own and their households’ development and possess equal capabilities as males to gain visibility and access (to resources) in society. Women are also expected to develop aspirations to gain equality with men and desire to be treated as equal so that they also get opportunities to rise to the top of her chosen field. The whole process should be such that it does not draw a raised eyebrow towards them. Such a gender transformation can happen only happen with a channelized path for the empowerment of women.

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