Volume : 2, Issue : 8, AUG 2016

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN KARNATAKA THROUGH MGNREGA – FROM 2006 TO 2015

Komala, Dr. G M Dinesh

Abstract

Women Empowerment deals with improvement or tremendous changes in the present position of women compared with earlier decades. The position and status of women all over the world has risen incredibly in the 21st century. We find that it has been very low in 18th and 19th centuries in India and elsewhere when they were treated like 'objects' that can be bought and sold. For a long time women in India remained within the four walls of their household. Their dependence on menfolk was total. A total struggle going back over a century has bought women the property rights, voting rights, equality in civil rights before the law in matters of marriage an employment. In addition to the above rights, in India, the customs of purdha (Veil System), female infanticide, child marriage, sati system, dowry system and the state of permanent widowhood were either totally removed or checked to an appreciable extent after independence through legislative measures. The concept of women empowerment got wider popularity and acceptance with launching of decentralized planning's in various places. Rural women are traditionally homebound; the employment guarantee act played a significant role for curbing gender discrimination and empowering rural women. The national rural employment guarantee act 2005 or NREGA was brought into force by the union government in February 2006 a different scheme for the betterment of women empowerment and development of rural population. The scheme is attractive especially for women because it stipulates that one third of the total workers should be women.

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