Relief India Trust Role in Women Empowerment Introduction: Women empowerment has always been a sensitive topic, particularly in South Asia and Middle Eastern countries. It is increasingly becoming a big concern with the rapid increase in the population. Most of the developing countries face women's empowerment issues. Gender bias reduces the strength of a nation and can significantly affect its development, leaving a severe impact on present and future of the nation. The idea of women empowerment is to give equal rights to women in every field of life. They can exceedingly participate in all aspects of life with much better performance at times as compared to men. If we as a nation are ignoring this point, then surely we are lacking behind in comparison with the progress of the world. The Relief India Trust has earned the reputation of doing notable work for women empowerment all through the country. Women empowerment has always been at the top of the list of Relief India Trust. Women Empowerment Agenda of NGOs: In developing countries of today, women empowerment is the common agenda of both government and non government organizations. It is all because of the importance of women in the progress and development of a nation. The key elements in women empowering are to enable them, give them authority and power and permit them to achieve all constructive things. Women liberty is extremely important as a genius captive woman in the society might lose several opportunities of exploring their talent and the way they can contribute to the society. According to Relief India Trust NGO, women empowerment means the process of challenging the ‘inequality’ of women as compared to men. Inequality also means giving men excessive control on resources and misuse of power relations when it comes to choosing between a man and a woman, with the woman mostly on the losing side. Women's rights in our society: Women's rights are the entitlements that are claimed or given by the state government for the liberty and benefits of women. In some of the developed countries, women's rights are either institutionalized or they are firmly supported by the law of the country. On the other hand, in most of the developing and under-developed countries, women rights are sadly either, ignored, overlooked or suppressed. The women's rights should be given utmost importance in all the developing and under-developing countries as they are the future of the nation as much as men are. Following are some of the women rights which in every way are the sole rights of women from any part or nation of the world: •
Empowering women to take independent decisions at the household level.
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Level of change in power relations with respect to time.
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Their participation in political activities and campaigns and challenging the misuse or unequal distribution of power.
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Their sole right to vote.
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Access to all the resources as much as men have.
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Their ability to have control over benefits and resources.
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Equal pay scales
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Liberty to hold public offices.