Crimes Against Women: A Serious Challenge To Women Empowerment In India

Abstract

Women Empowerment is most vital system to strengthen the future of women in India. It is a
systematic approach which needs to develop more seriously in India. The Government of India came
up in the new millennium by declaring the year 2001 as Women Empowerment Year to focus on a
vision where women are equal partners like men. This process has been further accelerated with some
sections of women becoming increasingly self-conscious of their discrimination in several areas of
family and public life. They are also in a position to mobilize themselves on issues that can affect their
overall position. Empowerment would become more relevant if women are educated, better informed
and can take rational decisions and they should feel themselves safe in the country. This chapter
highlights how growing crimes against women is a serious challenge in the path of women
empowerment in India and tries to find out some solutions to these.

Keyword: Empowerment, discrimination, self-conscious, mobilize