Gender Equality And Women Empowerment

From last ten decades women’s empowerment and gender equality is the top most agendas of the whole world . Gender equality is through women’s empowerment is an important aspect of achievement – through ICT , education , employment and representation of political terms as well as women’s health and personality factors . Social development is important pillars of sustainable development and sustainable development never success without involvement of gender equality and women’ empowerment . Consequently , it is stated that gender equality is both a human rights issue and precondition for , and indicator of sustainable development .It is also that gender disparity is prevalent across the culture of the world and that without serious steps to tackle it , sustainable cannot be achieved . Furthermore rightly outlined that to create a just and sustainable world and to enhance women’s role in sustaining their families and communities , achieving gender equality is paramount . On other hand , if gender equality is not maintained , it will retard the country’s development .By (Stevens 2010) interestingly underlines that “An increasing the high economic costs and leading social inequalities and environmental degradation around the world . Most importantly , in India , gender based discriminations and inequalities are very much apparent , although the government is working aggressively towards alleviating such problems . As a result , low empowerment of women’s and high gender gap still impede the development process of the country . Even though the country is on path of development in various respect , the likelihood sustainability is in question , given such a disparity . Hence this study reveals the need to empower women and achieve gender equality for the sustainable development of the country .