Vipinkumar, V P (2023) Women empowerment in mariculture. In: Winter School on Mariculture Technologies for Income Multiplication, Employment, Livelihood and Empowerment. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 307-317.
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Abstract
Women empowerment is a ‘bottom-up’ process of transforming gender power relations, through individuals or groups developing awareness of women’s subordination and building their capacity to challenge it. Empowerment basically refers to the process of raising women status by way of promoting economic, social, political and local empowerment. The goals of women empowerment are to challenge patriarchal ideology, to transform the structures and institutions that reinforce and perpetrate gender discrimination and social inequality and enable poor women to gain access to and control over both material and information resources. The paradigm of empowerment means increasing the social, political, spiritual or economic strength of individuals and communities. A lot has already been echoed in the mainstream media and research perspective about the significance that gender equality and empowerment of women play in the overall modernization of any society. Empowering women in a society where they have been treated like doormats for centuries is a Herculean task. There is bound to be an internal resistance practically. It would be pertinent to make an attempt for the practical empowerment of women in the context of community development.
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