First Edition, March 2025
Commonwealth Teachers Group (CTG)
Women Empowerment: Holistic Progress Redefined From the desk of Sri Nabakumar Karmakar, General Secretary, AIFEA,INDIA & NATIONAL AWARD RECIPIENT RETD. HEADMASTER.
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron.
In this present age of advancement in socio-cultural, economic, political and academic horizons, women have occupied very significant place. The path to women empowerment and gender equality in India is a rewarding journey of resilience, struggle and beaming hope and scintillating splendour to dismantle the edifice of deeply ingrained patriarchy. To put it in the words of G.D. Anderson ,“ Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” Women empowerment means offering the legitimate, equal and unbiased right to education, employment, safety, participation in the political fields, both nationaland international, voice of protests against all discriminations and evils of a society, nay a nation atlarge, right to have and to determine choices, right to have power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home. Even God realized this when He created man. He created Adam first. But soon He realized that the world was incomplete without a woman. So He created Eve. Herein lies the seed of women empowerment and the intrinsic potentiality of women, which is a proven fact today in all respects. “Education International”, quite rationally and legitimately, has already launched a vigorous campaign to promulgate the indispensable necessity of women empowerment. The AIFEA has been consistently and religiously following and promoting this message and has already organized many workshops in India. The first Asia Pacific women’s conference was held at Bangkok in July ,2024 and it was a brilliant success of the AIFEA to strengthen this mission. They also organized workshops on women empowerment at Telengana in Hyderabad in August ,2024 , at Jalgaon in Maharashtra, in Patna and in Kolkata of West Bengal. They are committed to spreading this significant message in India so that people feel that women empowerment is no longer a myth, but a reality and this reality is the mark of real progress of a nation.
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