Due to the recent growth in modern civilization and expansion of business as well as social and political activities, societies all over the world have realized the potential of women as contributors to economic growth and development. Be it micro or small or medium-scale operations, women have come forward to establish themselves as owners and/or manage them.
Empowerment of women is essential as their thoughts and their value systems lead to the development of a good family, good society, and ultimately a good nation. It is rightly said that, when a woman is empowered, she opens a gateway for her future generation as well. They convert the latent and idle resources like land, labor, and capital into national income and wealth in the form of goods and services. They help increase the country’s net national product and per capita which are important yardsticks for measuring economic growth. Thus, women as entrepreneurs play an important role in the employment generation for themselves as well as others, thereby supplementing their family income.
In India, the demand for skilled and semi-skilled labor force has always been on a rise in both rural and urban areas as well as abroad. The informal sector is unorganized, unregulated, and unregistered and employment in the same isn’t even represented in the labor force statistics. But broad paradigms show that women are the main labor supply in the informal sector since the formal sector is mainly dominated by men. This makes women especially vulnerable since the informal sector doesn’t provide any social protection. Women in the informal sector don’t need much or no money to start their production and since their production is labor intense even a small investment has a high marginal rate of return.
The last quarter of a century has seen tremendous changes in the education of women, in their health and political participation, in-laws governing them as well as in awareness of their rights. However, rapidly growing enrolment and retention of women in school closing the gender gap, women having higher longevity of life than men, lowering of fertility rates and rapid extension in the entry of women in local level elected bodies show steady and sure advancement of women following hand in hand with the economic development of the country. With an increase in the rate of growth of the economy and in the above-mentioned development/empowerment indicators for women, the 21st century is poised to be women’s century.
But yet there still exist certain sectors where women participation is either not yet seen or women still remain victims of helplessness, chauvinism, prejudice and lack of adequate incentive. This is where AMROHASAY non-profit organisation makes a difference in the lives of many women, people might view It as insignificant but It is a huge change in the lives of the women which are made by giving them the opportunity to work, giving them the opportunity to speak, take decisions by themselves and more over allowing them live their lives as they want to live.
-Mehul Kashmiria
