Contest 1-Women empowerment

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Women Empowerment means giving the power or freedom to women to take their own decisions. It enables  a greater degree of self-confidence among women. Nearly after 70 years of   Independence,Indian women has come a long way in all sectors, but was not  

able to come out of the male chauvinistic attitude of the society. Various reformers right from 

pre-independence era worked towards empowerment of women. Abolition of Sati and child marriage,

 promotion of widow remarriage were some of the reforms attributed to the freedom fighters.

In present scenario, though the position of women did improve, when compared on a global level

 we are far behind. Government has taken many initiatives to promote welfare of girl child and 

for adequate representation of women in all sectors of economy. Of these, recent ones like Beti

 Bachao Beti Padhao, Sukanya Samridhi yojana , etc, launched for the welfare of girl child.Increase 

in reservation of women in local representation, Stringent safety norms for women at work place , 

Nirbhaya law are few examples of government initiatives for better representation and safety of women .

Though, government has taken many initiatives in women development, there are many loopholes in their implementation . And most importantly, the real change should come from the grass roots of society. There should be transition from patriarchal domination to gender parity, only then we could achieve  real empowerment.