Women's Empowerment Through Political Participation in India
| Author | Kuldeep Fadia |
| Published date | 01 July 2014 |
| Date | 01 July 2014 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120140313 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT THROUGH
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN INDIA
KULDEEP FADIA
The ethics
and
trend
of
participatory
aspect
has been
advocated in this article
for
vibration
of
universal trend
of
understanding in realism. The data and indicators in this artcle
symbolise the phenomenon
of
growth and attributes
in
the
sphere
of
political participation
of
women
for
holistic mindset
and political stratification on the highest cohesive sense
_of
the term and cor.iditionalities.
WOMEN'S
EMPOWERMENT
as
a
phenomenon
is
not
something
absolu.tely new.
It
has been there throughout history in almost all societies
for a variety
of
reasons.
What
could be considered as new is its increasingly
coming out in public, its having been shifted and reshaped from women's
welfare and their development to now women's empowerment, and it is
being discussed, reported and critically evaluated.
What
is rather recent is
the identification
of
the girl children and women as a special group and the
acknowledgement internationally
of
the importance
of
specific focus on
the critical and key issues related with the
emp~werment
of
women. What
is still more
recent
is the
increasing
realisation
and
recognition that
empowering women
is
absolutely essential rather imperative, for familial,
societal, national and international development and progress.
It
has also
been realised and accepted that genuine commitment and efforts have to
be made by each country at the government, non-government and individual
levels to work, towards establishing women's empowerment as nationality
and internationally discussed also in
UN
World Conference on Women
and agreed upon the Plan for Action.
1
The
first
ever
world conference on women was held in Mexico in
1975 to address the issue
of
gender inequality.
It
was followed by a second
world conference on women at Copenhagen in 1980 and a third in Nairobi
in 1985. At the
UN
Conference on Environment and Development
in
Rio
1United Nations
-Agenda
for Development (United Nations, New York, 1997), pp.47-
49.
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