Educating and Empowering Rural Women: A part of package for Gender Equality

Abstract

    Empowerment is the process of challenging existing power and gaining greater control over the source of power. The goal of women empowerment are to challenge patriarchal ideology to transform the structures and institutions that reinforce and perpetuate the exploitation subordination and oppression exist on the part of the dominant class that is men and revolutionary trends are seen on the part of the oppressed class the women. By empowerment women would be able to develop self-esteem, confidence realise their potential and enhance their collective power. To eliminate gender disparity and to promote gender equality and women empowerment education of women is must. Education for women in India is facing various challenges in all stages of education particularly in higher education. Which can be used for Corona period as it increased the use of online education. Online education has emerged as a help to women of all ages to acute themselves intellectually through acquisition of knowledge, leading them to new radical methods of thinking thus rendering them more self-directed and freer. This paper tries to examine the online education reforms in relation to the concept of empowerment of women. General studies in tribal societies showed that it is social conditioning and not biology that accounts for gender differences between masculine and feminine (Varghese 2015, pg. 24) for empowerment of rural women comma community empowerment, organisation employment, political empowerment, and psychological empowerment. All components are needed and are interrelated and overlapped. Community empowerment caters to access toward knowledge skill attitude and awareness participatory approaches to learning comma formation and support of women group.

Keywords- Women Empowerment, Education, Empowering Rural Women and Gender Equality.