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Making Women Competent Enough for Tomorrows Sustainability in India | Original Article

Uroos Fatima Rizvi*, J. R. Jha, in Anusandhan | Technology & Management

ABSTRACT:

The population of the world constitutes almost 50% of women. As per as their social status is concerned, they are not treated as equal to men in all the spheres of life. Women are understood as they are not enabling people, they cannot acquire and possess power resources, in order to make decision on their own, or resist decisions that are made by others that affect them. Even it is said that they should be empowered when they have control over a large portion of power resources in society. The extent of possession of various resources such as personal wealth, such as land, skills, education, information, knowledge, social status, position held, leadership trains, capabilities of mobilization. It is widely believed that the women will be competent when they get equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities. The competency will go a long way in removing the existing gender discrimination. Women competency in contemporary Indian society is in forms of their education, health, media images and work in the context of descendant, their legal status in terms of marriage, divorce and inheritance of property., their participation in social and political activities, rule of residence and household chores, seeking wealth care should be taken into consideration. Similarly, a role of women deals with duties and obligations while empowerment deals with rights. For instance, it is commonly assumed that the most of the woman in India is: wife a cook, a teacher of her children and daughter-in-law and so on. The paper deals with the status of 20th central women in India and their preventive scales to handle and make women over conic from the orthodox customs. The data reflects the gradual changes in 21st centres. Women’s' status, and a new look of 21st century women which resulted as India shining among the world. Woman must not accept: she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her: she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.