debate in against the motion on the topic is women empowerment is becoming a reality?
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"The world of humanity has two wings one is women and other man. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly" This statement clearly focused on the importance of women in our society. Women constitute an important segment of any community and perform multiple roles as mother, housewife, and wages earners. Moreover It has been said that women hold up half the sky but in India forget about sky women don't even own the land they toil on all their lives. Women comprise barely 11 percent of land holders in the country. Yet, they constitute almost a third of the agricultural labour force and about 72 percent of employed women are in the agricultural sector. Apart from this, women's are the invisible driving force behind the India shinning story. Among 43.3 crore workers in unorganized sector of which women make up overwhelming 95.9% who are behind tall buildings, highways, swank city roads etc. Women are important productive workers in India's national economy despite the fact that much of their work falls in the indivisible or un-organized category.
Almost 60 percent of the women in the 'service' sector are domestic workers and not, as we imagine, call centres employees. The government as the largest employer has on its rolls the services of 41.39 lakh women who are supposed to receive and average of Rs 100 per day. These include anganwadi workers, mid day meal workers and accredited social health activists (ASHAs) who prepare mid-day meals, assist with inoculations and vaccinations, child-birth, awareness and capacity building of women and adolescent girls and early child education. In short, women's are the hands and feet of the social sector. Yet these women work in deplorable conditions aren't entitled to minimum wages, let alone social security or paid leave. According to the National Commission for Enterprise in Unorganized Sector Report (2007) found that increase in employment between 1999 and 2005has been mostly in this 'informal' sector.
Men dominate the world true but women are making rapid strides and are giving men a run for their money. Over the years there has been significant growth in the number of women entrepreneurs all over the world and India has been no exception. In India during 1981 only 5.2 percent of women were self employed however, as per census 2001 this figure has risen to 11.2 percent and if this trend continues, it is likely that in another 10 years women will compromise 20 percent of the entrepreneurial force. The flip side of women entrepreneurs is among the population of 500 million women, but only 258 of them hold some of the top jobs in the country. There 16 women on the board of directors of the 30 Sensex companies or 4.8 percent of the 335 people who hold directorships positions. In the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 100 companies, which as 923 directors only 50 (5.4%) are women while the companies in the BSE 500 index have only 192 women (5.3%) of 3650 persons holding directorship positions. Moreover, according to catalyst India Benchmarking report for 2010 only 17 percent of Indian companies offered target leadership development programmes for women. Another study by women in leadership (WILL) forum shows that Indian companies have much lower women representation in senior positions compared with multinational firms. While Indian companies such as TATA Consultancy Services, Zensar Technologies, Tata Steel and JSW Steel had 5-6% women in senior positions, multinationals such as Pepsico, KPMG, Citigroup, GE and Pfizer had 15-20% women at the same level in 2010. During the same period Indian Banks like Axis Bank had 21% women participation in total workforce. In comparison American Express in India had 43 percent women representation in its total staff strength of 5,500.
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Thus, there are many challenges a successful business woman has to face. "As always women entrepreneurs have to wear many hats right from raising capital to handling infrastructure and the authorities, to mastering the art of surviving in a male dominated world. …