Women Empowerment and Globalization : A Modern Perspective

Globalisation is about the way economic and technological interaction among various countries impacts our culture, identity and society. Growing social opportunity and individual empowerment in the twenty first century is inseparable from the working of the globalised world. Women Empowerment is a process, by which women gain greater control over material and intellectual resources which will assist them in increasing their self-reliance, asserting their independent rights, and challenging the ideology of patriarchy and gender-based discrimination against women. This will also enable them to organize themselves to assert their autonomy to make decisions and choices, and ultimately eliminate their own subordination in all the institutions and structures of society. Today, more women are leading governments, business enterprises and non-governmental organizations than in previous generations. But this is not the complete picture nor is it an indication of the general state of women around the world. Women still comprise the majority of the world\'s poor unfed and unschooled. They are still subjected to rape as a tactic of war and exploited by traffickers globally in a billion-dollar criminal business. Few months ago, a young girl in Afganistan was on her way to school when a group of men threw acid on her face, permanently damaging her eyes, because they objected to her seeking an education. Their attempt to terrorise the girl and her family failed. She said, my parents told me to keep going to school even if I am killed. That young girl\'s courage and resolve should serve as an inspiration to all of us-women and men-to continue to work as hard as we can to ensure that girls and women are accorded the rights and opportunities they deserve, especially in the midst of this financial crisis.