Empowerment Of Women Through Home Science Training

Research Article
Archana Chaudhary
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2019.1007.3783
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Women, Home Science, Training , Development, Empowerment; Education
Abstract: 

A woman is an important part of family, which is the basic unit of the society. Home science training is the most important tool for a woman’s physical, emotional, economic and social development. Empowerment is a process through which a woman is able to have the ability to make choices, control resources or enact decisions. The empowered woman can become the agent of their own development, exercising choices to set their own agenda & be strong enough to challenge & change their subordinate position in the societies. Home science training will help women to empower through the knowledge of science and technology to face the challenges of today’s technological age. Home science training not only educates a woman butenables her to take decisions and accept responsibilities at her home and outer world. All over the world, the movement for empowering the women’s status has always emphasised education is the most significant instrument for social change. Education for women’s development should include education selfreliance, personal development, social development, productive capacity, social integration and political understanding. Home science training is the perfect means for achieving the above given requirements. Home science training is not developed to educate the girls merely to obtain the degree which is a passport to matrimony, but it is designed to attain the fullest development in all respects, personally, socially and economically. Home science training provides complete and equal access to and control over factors contributing such empowerment, particularly, health, education, information, life-long learning for self development, vocational skills, employment and income earning opportunities, technical services, inheritance and matrimony, common resources, credit, technology, market, mass-media, family planning, women rights etc.Home Science training has proved that women along with being home maker, she can be a teacher, researcher, entrepreneur and administrator. Therefore, it uses and demonstrates the Women’s possibilities in each field of life.