Education employment and women empowerment an in depth study on west bengal

Abstract

As men, Women are also important part of the society. Women play a pivotal newlinerole in the overall progress of a country as they constitute half of the human resources newlineof a nation. The economic wealth of a country is seriously depleted if about half of the newlinenation s human resource is neglected. Women are to be considered as equal partners newlinein the process of development. They play important role in Nation building Processes. newlineTheir contribution the development processes has been gradually increased all over newlinethe World. Yet the fact is that women in almost all the known societies of the World newlineor past or presents have not enjoyed the same status , privileges, rights, power and that newlineof men (Mittal , 1995). Women, although they constitute half of humanity, are newlinesocially, economically and politically marginalized. According to the United Nations newlineMillennium Development Goals Reports (2009), Women constitute half of the world newlinepopulation, perform two-third of the world s work but receive only one-tenth of its newlineincome and own less than one hundred of its property .They are seen primarily as newlinewives, mothers and home-makers rather than as workers, because their reproductive newlinerole is given prominence over their productive role. This has kept them away from newlineplaying a significant role in the public domain in almost every part of the world. The newlinelarge amount of work they do in looking after the home and family is unpaid, newlineunnoticed and unrecognized. Not only this, but a large amount of income generating newlinework that they do in and around the house also goes unnoticed and is not computed in newlinenational income statistics. newline