Women Empowerment
“You can judge a Nation, and how successful it is based on how it treats its Women and Girls”- said Barack Obama the former US President. Empowering women has always been a top priority in the agenda of every government of every nation. The question which arises now is Have we become successful in our endeavor, in spite of all? The harsh fact is in spite of all efforts, propaganda and agendas the state of women in today’s world is nothing great, though the situation is better in the more developed nations, it is in abhorrent state in most places. Now the question lies who is going to improvise the current scenario? Does the responsibility lies solely on the government, or women activist’s or the NGO’s? The answer is NO. The responsibility lies on each of us. We are responsible for our own empowerment. We are responsible for exercising our own rights. Bose once said that “Freedom is not granted, it is taken.” Similarly we can’t expect someone to bestow our rights upon us, cause