1. Walk to Equality:
Ensuring Safety and Empowerment
of Women
A
Presentation
By
Students of
Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune

2. Members
• Parag Bansod
• Shital Salunkhe
• Neha Dumne
• Minakshi Lute• Minakshi Lute
• Dinesh Parihar

3. Introduction:
• At some time or the other, we have all heard the comment,
‘Gender is a Western concept. We don’t need it in India’. A
number of arguments are used to justify this stand. We are
told that India is the original home of the Mother Goddess.
In our ancient history, we have many instances of women
scholars and women rulers. Stories from mythology and
folklore are recounted to prove that women in India have
scholars and women rulers. Stories from mythology and
folklore are recounted to prove that women in India have
always been honoured and respected. We are proud of the
fact that India was one of the first countries in the world to
give women the right to vote. The Indian Constitution is
one of the most progressive in the world, and guarantees
equal rights for men and women. All this is cited as
evidence to support the contention that Indian women are
free and equal members of society.

4. Major Problems
• Violence against women
• Girlchild infanticide and foeticide
Gender
Inequality
• Education
• health
• Economy
Female
Empowerment

5. Cause of problems
In male dominant
society, female think
they are PHYSICALLY
WEAK
Reasons for the
cause of problems
Population of
women as campare
to male is LESS
They are NOT AWARE
of LAWS
There girlchild is
INFANTICIDE and
FOETICIDE
Most of the women
are DOMINATED by
the SOCIETY

6. Proposed solution
• Engage women in design and diffusion.
• Train the women for betterment of society.
• Giving them free education up to graduate
level.level.
• Develop them by technology.
• Increase legislative gender quota.

7. Merits of proposed solution
• Increased literacy level.
• Increased awareness of laws.
• Increased equality in society.
• Increased empowerment level.• Increased empowerment level.

8. Implementation of solution
High level
• Youth.
• NGOs.
• News paper.
• Television and Radio.• Television and Radio.
Ground levels
• Schools.
• In syllabus make a equality in female and male.
• Doctor.

9. Implementation challenges
• Difficulty in changing mentality of family.
• Difficult to accept by male dominant society.
• Uneducated family never try to support.
• Most of the politician trying to oppose.• Most of the politician trying to oppose.
• Getting volunteer is too difficult.
• Government do not trying to give funding.

10. Mitigation factors
• Awareness/Advertising campaign.
• Attract youth for support.
• Getting fund from female employers 0.5-1% of
there salary.there salary.

11. vision
The Indian women of Culturally
rooted, Globally oriented,rooted, Globally oriented,
Healthy, Educated, Self-Reliant,
secure in her home and safe
outside with opportunity to
contribute in all walks of life.

12. References:
NGOs
• “Milun sarya jani” – Vidya bal
• “Lokayat” -Alka joshi
JournalsJournals
• Achieving gender equality and womens
empowerment in the post-2015 framework.
• Gender equality and women’s empowerment in
india.