International Women's Day 2022: Salute to women power, only 80 lakh women out of 60 million entrepreneurs of the country..!

There are ample reasons to view Indian women as a forceful intervention in the emerging landscape of New India. Women related rules, laws, constitutional provisions, media, government policies and programs, their representation in Panchayats and Legislative Assemblies and Parliament, gender budgeting, entrepreneurship and skill development programs, and banking and micro-credit schemes, self-help groups, and MGNREGA like Together, the efforts have helped women create a new India.

All these have proved helpful in making them a modern nation of their own. Women have become the drivers of innovations in developing countries. In the recent elections, the 17th Lok Sabha began with 78 women MPs. In which only 34 MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party were elected, while 724 women candidates entered the election season. This is a good sign.

The International Labor Organization reports that women are employed in more than forty percent of the world's jobs. Government reports suggest that rural women constitute a major part of the total labor force of the country. A recent report by the Mackenzie Global Institute on Gender Equality estimates-

If India establishes gender balance in its economy, it can add up to $7 billion to its GDP in the next ten years.

Experience also shows that in any enterprise, the results of a mixed board of men and women are manifold positive. Only 10 percent of women's participation increases profits up to 70 percent. Entrepreneurship statistics show that only 14 percent of women have got this opportunity.

The increasing contribution of women in the business sector

Of the 6 crore entrepreneurs in the country, only 80 lakh are women. Small scale industries account for 83 percent of the business handled by women, of which about 80 percent are self-financed. Only 4.4 percent have taken loans from anywhere. 60 percent of women entrepreneurs come from disadvantaged communities. SC/ST women are handling 60 percent of the business.

In April 2013, FICCI's women's organization published a report titled "Entrepreneurship Against All Inequalities" in the form of stories of successful life struggles of 150 women entrepreneurs. The report is a document of the courageous, determined and entrepreneurial potential of women's power. How slowly women entrepreneurs are making their place in the male-dominated society by their struggle.

Strengthening women's entrepreneurship requires a multi-pronged strategy in which the government, financial institutions, expert groups, business, and industry associations, and the experience of successful women entrepreneurs are directly shared with them. To make entrepreneurship capacity building and awareness and skill development the cornerstone of the emerging corporate economy and we proudly say “Women are Champions of Change”.

Gender inequality has automatically weakened wherever women have made their presence felt. The way women have established themselves in the science, technology, medicine, sports, media, and entertainment industries is the only solution to permanent diseases like gender inequality.

The major contribution of women in rural areas

In rural areas, women have made unique contributions in agriculture to fisheries, animal husbandry, tea industry. The figures show-

The contribution of women in the agriculture sector is recorded as up to 80 percent. The study of the Food and Agriculture Organization states that in the Himalayan region, the average work per hectare for men and women is 1212 hours and that of women is 3485 hours.

At the same time, the labor that women do in agriculture as well as other agricultural ancillary works, animal husbandry and fisheries, etc., and domestic work, is different. The only major contribution in reducing the poverty of the country is that of Indian women. MGNREGA figures also tell the same story. Women are doing more work than men.

90% of the labor force of women is consumed in labor and agricultural activities. The research was done by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in nine states, which showed that the share of women in crop production is 75 percent. In horticulture, up to 80 percent and 51 percent of all these works are done by women.

In animal husbandry, 60 percent and in fish farming up to 95 percent of female labor is used. Himachal Pradesh is heavily dependent on women in agriculture. A conducive environment should be created for women and a cooperative system should be created for them, in which science and technology become their ally, then women's power will set new records in the development of the country.

still many challenges

The participation of women in political institutions with the 74th amendment of the Indian Constitution brought major changes in society. Education and economic strength have undoubtedly given identity to women. But without political identity, there will be no stability in it. Ashwini Shastri's book "50 Peak Women of Indian Politics," tells the life struggle of Indian women as well as their great contribution to politics.

This book suggests that complex socio-economic problems can be effectively solved by the balanced representation of men and women in legislative bodies. Now the world has started to understand that the status of a country is determined by the social status of its women.

The Sustainable Development Goal-5, which has been mentioned by the United Nations in the order of the Millennium Development Goals, is because the world cannot develop without the participation of women.

If any nation wants balanced and sustainable development in the right direction, then gender inequality has to be removed. The status of women in the countries of the world will decide the progress and prosperity of the future world. Indian women have built their world on the strength of their struggles.

The new Indian woman of the new century has dreamed of a new India with new thinking, new morality, new values, new paradigms, records, and new horizons, it will be a strong, harmonious, peaceful, and just India, which the world society expects from us.