Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Women Empowerment
Journal Title: Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved – Dr.B.R. Ambedkar A woman is the full circle within her is the power to create, nurture and transform – Diane Mariechild In ancient India, women enjoyed a very high position but gradually their position degenerated into merely objects of pleasure meant to serve certain purpose. They lost their individual identity and even their basic human right. Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered concept. Women’s empowerment is a process in which women gain greater share of control over resources material, human and intellectual like knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money - and access to money and control over decision-making in the home, community, society end nation, and to gain ‘power’. According to the Country Report of Governmentof India, “Empowerment means moving from a position of enforced powerlessness to one; of power”.But, from time immemorial, the women in this land of ours were treated as a sort of thing. Herplacing in the society was not at par with other human beings. She has no rights. She cannot movenor do anything at her will. In Hindu Shastras, she has been branded just like animals or some objects of enjoyment. From the verses of Ramayana as written by Tulsi Das, Dhol, ganwar, shudra,pashu, naari - Ye sab tadankeadhikari”, In ‘Manusmriti’ the ancient Hindu Code-book, the statusgranted to women is quite visible and she was put to the lowest rug of humanity as she was treatedat par with the animals and slave by the proprietors of Hindu Dharma. Such was the placementearmarked to our mothers, sisters and even great grand mothers that humanity was ashamed of.
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Dr. Lalita Siroha
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