Importance of the Women Empowerment in Karnataka (Kabbaliga Community)

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Bhaganna Mainal

Abstract

Empowerment of women is essentially the process of up lieutenant of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. Women empowerment involves the building up of a society, a political environment, wherein women can breathe without the fear of oppression, exploitation, apprehension, discrimination and the general feeling of persecution which goes with being a woman in a traditionally male dominated structure. Women constitute almost 50% of the world's population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby female's population has been comparatively lower than males. As far as their social status is concerned, they are not treated as equal to men in all the places. In the Western societies, the women have got equal right and status with men in all walks of life. But gender disabilities and discriminations are found in India even today. Thus this paper will focus on the place of women in the society of Karnataka

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Bhaganna Mainal

Research scholar, Dept. of Tribal Studies, Kannada University, Hampi, Hospet.

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