Question

What is women's movement? Discuss the various strategies used in the women's movement.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Women's empowerment is the way or a social action in which women elaborate and recreate what it is to be in a circumstance that they previously were denied.[1][2] Empowerment can be defined in many ways, however, when talking about women's empowerment, empowerment means accepting and allowing people (women) who are on the outside of the decision-making process into it. “This puts a strong emphasis on participation in political structures and formal decision-making and, in the economic sphere, on the ability to obtain an income that enables participation in economic decision-making.”[3] Empowerment is the process that creates power in individuals over their own lives, society, and in their communities. People are empowered when they are able to access the opportunities available to them without limitations and restrictions such as in education, profession and lifestyle. Feeling entitled to make your own decisions creates a sense of empowerment. Empowerment includes the action of raising the status of women through education, raising awareness, literacy, and training. Women's empowerment is all about equipping and allowing women to make life-determining decisions through the different problems in society.[4]

Alternatively, it is the process for women to redefine gender roles that allows for them to acquire the ability to choose between known alternatives whom have otherwise been restricted from such an ability.[1] There are several principles defining women's empowerment such as, for one to be empowered, they must come from a position of disempowerment. Furthermore, one must acquire empowerment themselves rather than have it given to them by an external party. Other studies have found that empowerment definitions entail people having the capability to make important decisions in their lives while also being able to act on them. Lastly, empowerment and disempowerment is relative to other at a previous time; therefore, empowerment is a process, not a product.[2]

Women empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development and economics. It can also point to the approaches regarding other trivialized genders in a particular political or social context.

Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their right to control and benefit from the resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being.[5]

While often interchangeably used, the more comprehensive concept of gender empowerment refers to people of any gender, stressing the distinction between biological and gender as a role.

Answer 2

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Women and girls now have the right to study and go to school. There are other. spheres-like legal reform, violence and health where the situation of women and girls has improved. These changes have not happened automatically. Women individually and collectively have struggled to bring about these changes. This struggle is known as the Women's Movement. Individual women and women's organizations from different parts of the country are parts of the movement. Many men support the women's movement as well. Different strategies have been used to spread awareness to fight against discrimination and seek justice. Some of the strategies of this struggle are-

$\bf{\red{Campaigning :}}$ Campaigns to fight discrimination and violence against women are an important part of the women's movement., Campaigning have also led to new laws being passed. A law was passed in 2006 to give women who face physical and mental violence within their homes, also called domestic violence, some legal protection. Similarly, efforts made by the women's movement led the Supreme Court to formulate guidelines in 1997 to protect women against sexual harassment at the work place and within educational institutions.

In the 1980s. women agitated against the dowry deaths. They spoke out against the failure to bring these cases to justice. They came to the streets, approached the courts. Ultimately this became a public issue in the newspapers and society, and the dowry laws were changed to punish families who seek dowry.

$\bf{\red{Raising \:awareness:}}$ An important part of the women's movement is to raise public awareness on women's rights. Their message has been spread through street plays songs and public meetings.

$\bf{\red{Protesting:}}$ The women's movement raises its voice when violations against women take place or for example, when a law or policy acts against their interests. Public rallies and demonstrations are a very powerful way of drawing attention to injustices.

A report published by the World Bank suggests that the gender equality is the key to effective development in any society It states that the societies which promote women's rights and increase their access to resources enjoy lower poverty rates, faster economic growth and less corruption than countries that do not promote women's rights.