What is the real women empowerment according to gandhi?
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Woman is more fitted than man to make exploration and take bolder action in nonviolence.
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what tremendous advantage she has over man.
Gandhi learnt much from Kasturba and perhaps even more from his mother. His spiritual bent of mind seems to have come from her. Gandhiji’s devotion to women began with his devotion to his mother and Kasturba, most particularly to women as mother. Motherhood became increasingly his model for liberation of India and his own life, a mother, having brought forth a child, selflessly devotes herself to his care till he grows up and becomes independent. Even after children are grown-up her constant desire is to make herself one with them. Unless we have feeling and devotion for our motherland many countries will be lying in wait to crush us down He saw no hope for India's emancipation while her womanhood remained un-emancipated. He held men to be largely responsible for the tragedy. In the course of his social reform work the realization came to him that if he wanted to reform and purify society of the various evils that had crept into it; he had to cultivate a mother's heart.
He learnt the fundamental aspects of his soul politics from his mother and his wife but women's influence on him was not limited to his family. The bhadra mahila (responsible or new women), created in nineteenth century by Indian social reformers, became the model for Indian women on the nationalist era. Women in late nineteenth and early twentieth century created organizations such as All India Women’s Council and Bhagini Samaj founded predominantly among the upper-middle class in urban centres. Although many associate the ideals and organizations of the "new woman" with Gandhi, as Elise Boulding indicates "well before Gandhi was calling women to practice Satyagraha, the grandmothers, mothers, wives and daughters of the educated classes in India were forming organizations providing educations and action-training for other women, in order to re-build an Indian society freed from colonial structures."
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Gandhi on Women Empowerment:
The position of women in India has varied in different periods and
different classes, religion and ethnic groups. Pre independence era has
witnessed the exploitation of the women in and the outside of the home.
The Gandhian period and even prior to that is marked by the philosophy of
the some of the brilliant social reforms and thinkers like Raja Ram Mohan
Roy, Swami Dyanand Saraswati and so on who strived endlessly to bring
about a change in the condition of the Indian women so that they become
„better wives‟ and „better mothers‟. The Mahatma said that women have
been suppressed under custom and law for which man was responsible and
in the shaping of which she had no hand. Rules of social conduct must be
framed by mutual co-operation and consultation. Women have been taught
to regard themselves as slaves of men. Women must realize their full status
and play their part as equals of men. Wives should not be dolls and objects
of indulgence but should be treated as honured comrades in common
service. The educationally ill-disposed should be educated by their
husbands. The customary and legal status of women is bad and demands
radical change.
Gandhi however saw women not as „objects of reforms‟ but as „self-
conscious objects‟ and he includes the women among the „masses‟ in a
most natural way. Women participate in the mass movements led by him
and he made a great breakthrough in Indian women‟s lives for time to
come. It was Mahatma Gandhi‟s revolutionary call to women to join the
freedom struggle that led to the drawing of a new era. He recognized the
importance of women‟s participation in the freedom struggle.