Importance of Women’s Empowerment and Achieving Gender Equality in Today’s World

Women empowerment refers to making women powerful to make them capable of deciding for themselves, women has suffered a lot through the years at the hands of man. In earlier centuries, they were treated as almost non-existent. As if all the rights belonged to men even something as basic as voting. Women empowerment mainly refers to the practice of making women decisions as well as handle their lives without any familial or social restriction. In simple term, it entitles women take charge of their own personal development. Since women have always bear the oppressed ones in a patriarchal society, the main motive of woman empowerment is the help them stand equally with men. It is a fundamental step to ensure the prosperous growth of a family as well as the country. Women empowerment adds to confidence of women in their ability to lead meaningful and purposeful lives. It removes their dependence on their and makes them individuals in their own rights. Without women’s empowerment we cannot remove injustice and gender bias and inequality. The terms gender refers to the economic, social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female. In most societies, being a man or a woman is not simply a matter of different biological and physical characterizes. This paper deals with importance of gender equality scenario in India and types of inequalities between men and women. This paper sheds light on importance of gender equality and role of gender equality in women empowerment.