Women Empowerment in the Indian Armed Forces
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Women Empowerment in the Indian Armed Forces Wangchu Lama and Salvin Paul Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Management, Sikkim University, Gangtok, India
and women’s empowerment to be an integral part of all the 17 goals. Sustainable Development Goal number 5, followed by its targets, aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls in all forms.
Changing Status of Women in India Definitions Empowerment of women has been a major objective and debate in the recent past among the academia and civil societies across the world. Women empowerment is the process of changing the system of society or any institution that positions women as subordinate to men. Therefore in its simplest term women empowerment is a practice through which women acquire the ability or power to exercise their rights in a society concerning their own lives and realizing their sense of self-worth, their right to have and determine choices, access to opportunities and resources, and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create more just social and economic order by involving themselves in decision-making process, at local, national, as well as international levels. It involves undoing of all the social constructions that have kept women confined to the domestic realm. Hence, women’s empowerment is vital in the development of any society or a nation. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals adopted by world leaders in the year 2015 aims for gender equality
The status of women in a complex society like India isn’t uniform as compared to that of men. In India, theoretically, women are given the status of equality with men as per the constitutional provision laid down in Article 14. Practically, the status of women has undoubtedly changed since the ancient and the medieval period but yet to reach up to that level as enshrined in the constitution of India. In the present scenario, the conservative roles of women which were confined to the domestic realm have been changing for the better. Women are expanding their horizons because of financial needs and a few endeavors were made to convey deceivability and standard women’s commitment to general development and welfare of the society. The condition of women was appalling during the era of India’s independence. India was and is still considered as a misogynistic society of men by many, where women are looked down as weak and vulnerable by society, especially by men. The hardship of women has been witnessed on various grounds such as politics and employment as compared to that of men. One of the reasons for putting women at backstage is the
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predominance of male-centric culture in the patriarchal society (Banerjee 2013). After autonomy, Indian policy makers and strategists perceived the issue thus introducing gamut of policies and projects like BetiBachaoBetiPadhao
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