Women Empowerment

I was Googling  about Women Empowerment and I came across this quote by Abigail Adams, “If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

Women indeed are the most crucial part of our society, the society can not move ahead without a female, woman is life, woman is progress. In spite of this fact, women still do not enjoy the righteous status.

I still don't know weather the woman of today is empowered or not? The dictionary meaning of Empowerment is "  increasing the spiritual, political, social, or economic strength of individuals and communities."

Women have out shined men in all the fields be it  Politics,science, management or education. But still, biasness prevails at every step.  

I was reading today's Hindustan Times and I read this article about a lady from Najafgarh, the lady ,Geeta was married 2 years back. She gave birth to a girl 10 days ago, and her in-laws started demanding a dowry of  1 lakh. Her refusal led to a fight  and she was beaten up, she was hit with a sharp edged weapon and lost vision in the eye.

Her family alleged that in the past too, they had tried to kill her on dowry issue but she was rescued after her parents gave  70,000 to the in-laws.

No one has been arrested in this case till now. 

Who is to be blamed? The Husband, who after 2 years of marriage did not support his wife ? The in-laws , who didn't care about the mother of a new born? The family of the girl, who didn't take a step and made their daughter suffer? Or the Girl who went through torture for ' 2 whole years'.

Take the Women Reservation Bill  for instance, the Lok Sabha has failed to walk the talk to make 33% reservation for women in Parliament a reality.

I read in the Economics Times, that even Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal provide such rights to women. .

The issues relating to land rights to women have still remained unresolved. In many states, laws on inheriting properties are gender bias. 

In India, tribal women in most cases are more empowered than their counterparts in the general category.

The Azad India foundation believes that,

 Empowerment is a major step for development but it has to be seen in a relational context. A clear vision is needed to remove the obstacles to the path of women's emancipation both from the government and women themselves. Efforts should be directed towards all round development of each and every section of Indian women by giving them their due share.