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I have a 1998 Toyota Camry LE, apparently my car wasn't designed with the transponder system and I have no transponder key for it anyway. I was thinking of getting a replacement key, since I have only one master key, I need another key just in case I loose one. I want to use a transponder key instead of a regular key, because it looks better. Will a transponder key work with a non-transponder vehicle?

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N.V.S. SURYANARAYANA, Dr. T.J.M.S. RAJU, G.HIMABINDU, CH. ALEKHYA

 

Women constitute more than 50% of the population, undertake most of the work (two thirds) but only receive one tenth of the total income rather than men.  The working hours of women are longer than that of men, often 12-16 hours per day.  In addition to their domestic responsibilities in child care, women have to be responsible for housework, such as fetching firewood, water and cooking and even hard work as ploughing and raking, planting, transplanting and harvesting.  Women have to suffer from continuing under nutrition and two thirds of them are anemic.  Rural women lack sex education and have poor health due to frequent pregnancies.  The illiterate women especially lack of information on balanced diet, family planning, house cleaning and other information to improve their health and the quality of life.  They have lower status and low paid occupations, lower economic positions so they are less conscious and lack self-confidence.  They have a few books and a little time to read so they can not appreciate the benefits of reading and have no motivation for reading.

The term “empowerment” has become one of the most widely used development terms.  Women’s groups, non-governmental development organizations, activists, politicians, governments and international agencies refer to empowerment as one of their goals.  Yet it is one of the least understood in terms of how it is to be measured or observed.  It is used precisely because this word has now been one of the fashionable concepts to include in policies/programmes/projects that there is a need to clarify and come up with tentative definitions. 

 

The Concept of Empowerment:

            Empowerment has become a widely used word.  In spheres as different as management and labor unions, health care and ecology, banking and education, empowerment also taking such place.  It is also a concept that does not merely concern personal identity but brings out a broader analysis of human rights and social justice.

The term empowerment has been emerged as a ‘development buzzword’.  After attempting a review of literature, Shetty (1992) comes to the conclusion that empowerment is easy to ‘intuit’ but complex to define.  An empowered individual would be one who experiences a sense of self-confidence and self-worth; a person who critically analyzes his/her social and political environment;  a person who is able to exercise control over decisions that affect his/her life”. An attempt is made in this paper to examine how a literacy campaign has brought about women’s empowerment. The nature of empowerment renders it difficult to define.  On the one hand, it is often referred to as a goal for many development programmes/projects.  On the other hand, it can also be conceived as a process that people undergo, which eventually leads to changes.  Nelly Stromquist, for instance, defines empowerment as “a process to change the distribution of power both in interpersonal relations and in institutions through out society” while Lucy Lazo describes it as “a process of acquiring, providing, bestowing the resources and the means or enabling the access to a control over such means and resources”.

 

According to Namtip Aksornkool “It is a process in which women gain control over their own lives by knowing and claiming their rights at all levels of society at the international, local, and household levels.  Self-empowerment means that women gain autonomy, are able to set their own agenda and are fully involved in the economic, political and social decision-making process.”

 

According to Ms.Lazo  empowerment is a moving state; it is continuum that varies in degree of power.  It is relative. One can move from an extreme state of absolute lack of power to the other extreme of having absolute power.” Empowerment can have six components: Cognitive, Psychological, Economic, Political, Social and Legal.

 

According to Ms.Stromquist, the Cognitive Component would include the ‘women are understanding of their conditions of subordination and the causes of such conditions at both micro and macro levels of society.  It involves acquiring new knowledge to create a different understanding of gender relations as well as destroying old beliefs that structure powerful gender ideologies”.

 

            The Psychological Component, on the other hand, would include the “development of feelings that women can act upon to improve their condition.  This means formation of the belief that they can succeed in change efforts.”

 

According to him the Economic Component “requires that women can be able to engage in a productive activity that will allow them some degree of autonomy, no matter how small and hard to obtain at the beginning”. Education is considered one of the most important means to empower women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to participate fully in development processes.

 

The Political Component would encompass the “ability to organize and mobilize for change.  Consequently, an empowerment process must involve not only individual awareness but collective awareness and collective action.  The notion of collective action is fundamental to the aim of attaining social transformation” (Stromquist). In past women role in politics is mere but know the scenario is different a good percentage i.e nearly above 33% are participating. Encouraging them to participate in community programmes, Integration of women in the general national development plan, Allotting them good portfolio’s like education, health, sanitary that motivates them to do good practices, All family members, society, environment etc., should be support full, If all the trees were one tree, what a great tree it would be;  It is clear that women can be empowered individually, the feminist vision is one where women are able to articulate a collective voice and demonstrate collective strength. It was also stressed that incorporating the feminist perspective in the concept of empowerment implies a long-term re-designing of societies that will be based on democratic relationships.  According to Ms.Dighe talks about empowerment as dealing with strategic rather than practical gender needs.

 

Social Empowerment  It  is a “ process to change the distribution of power in interpersonal relations among different people, cultures, activities of the society”. In past awareness regarding the society is unknown to the women but present scenario reveals completely different pictures and knows they are equally participating in all activities of the society. Best references are our present President is Mrs. Pratibha Patil. U.S. foreign secretary a women, Hillary Clinton.  All efforts must be mobilized to enabling at least the next generation to be genuinely literate to empower socially. Encouraging traditional women organizations.

 

Talking about Legal Empowerment; Protection is needed for the women in terms of health, harassments, superstitions, cultural barriers etc., Child marriages, satisahgamana are some of the oldest traditions, which are the basic barriers for the girls development. But now there are no such rubbish traditions to be in practice. Best reference is latest women gruhahimsa crime results in lessening the harassments on women.  Make them aware of the civil rights, Exercising the legal rights when ever necessary, Preparing and canvassing the documents regarding the legal freedom for women, Providing good literary programmes regarding the legal empowerment.

 

Indicators of Empowerment:

 

Understanding that empowerment is a complex issue with varying interpretations in different societal, national and cultural contexts, there is some listing of indicators.

 

At the level of woman and her Household :

 

• Participation in crucial decision-making processes;
• Extent of sharing of domestic work by men;
• feeling and expression of pride and value in her work;
• Self-confidence and self-esteem; and
• Ability to prevent violence.

 

At the Community / Organizational level; the indicators are –

 

• Existence of women’s organizations;
• Allocation of funds to women and women’s projects;
• Increased number of women leaders at village, district, state and national levels;
• Involvement of women in the design, development and application of technology;
• Participation in community programmes, productive enterprises, politics and arts;
• Involvement of women in non-traditional tasks;
• Increased training programmes for women; and
• Exercising her legal rights when necessary;

 

At the National level; the indicators are –

 

• Awareness of her social and political rights;
• Integration of women in the general national development plan;
• Existence of women’s networks and publications; and
• The degree to which the media take on women’s issues.

 

Facilitating and Constraining Factors of Empowerment :

 

Empowerment does not take place in a vacuum.  In the same way that Ms.Lazo talks about women’s state of powerlessness as a result of “a combination and interaction of environmental factors.

 

Facilitating factors for Women Empowerment :

 

v  Existence of women’s organizations;

v  Availability of support systems for women;

v  Availability of women-specific data and other relevant information;

v  Availability of funds

v  Feminist leadership;

v  Networking;

v  Favorable media coverage;

v  Favorable policy climate.

 

Constraining Factors  for Women Empowerment :

 

     Heavy work load of women;

     Isolation of women from each other;.

     Illiteracy;

     Traditional views that limit women’s participation;

     No funds;

     Internal strife/militarization/wars;

     Disagreements/conflicts among women’s groups;

     Structural adjustment policies;

     Discriminatory policy environment;

     Negative and sensational coverage of media.

 

Strategies for the Future :

 

            Empowerment through education is ideally seen as a continuous holistic process with Cognitive, Psychological, Economic, Social, Legal and Political dimensions in order to achieve emancipation.  Given the complexity of political, societal and international interrelations, one has to systematically think about the strategies and concrete proposals for future action. Women Empowerment is possible with the below factors –

 

a)    Education :

 

The formal and non-formal education systems would need to be considered.  It would be important to analyze the gender content and to ascertain the manner in which it is addressed/not addressed in the educational system.  On the basis of the analysis, curriculum changes would need to be brought about.  Likewise it would be important to reorient the teachers on gender issues so that overall gender sensitization in the educational system could be brought about. In concrete terms, this would mean ;

Reorienting and re-educating policy makers;

• Securing equal access for boys and girls in education;                      
• Holding workshops/seminars for teachers
• Revising teaching materials;
• Producing materials in local languages;
• Implementing special programmes for women in the field of Adult Education;
• Incorporating issues such as tradition, race, ethnicity, gender sensitization, urban and
• Rural contexts in the programmes;
• Raising awareness on the necessity for health care;
• To show them how macro level mismanagement is responsible for their loss of jobs
• Focusing on parents as role models

 

It was also necessary to clarify the goals of women’s education.  The some more important objectives before us are:

 

      To eliminate illiteracy;

      To develop self-esteem and self-confidence;

      To have knowledge about their bodies and sexuality;

      To have the ability to make their own decisions and negotiate;

      To raise the women’s awareness of their civil rights;

      To provide skills for income generation;

      To make participation in community/society more effective; and

      To prepare them to be good women leaders.

 

b) Research/Documentation :

 

The importance of doing participatory and action research was underscored.  It was considered important to organize workshops to train grass-roots women to conduct participatory research where they could develop skills to critically analyze their existing conditions.  This will facilitate their organizing for collective action.

 

Research as a strategy would therefore entitle:

 

É       Disseminating information;

É       Producing and disseminating information leaflets regarding women’s rights;

É       Referring to women in all national and International statistics;

É       Collecting oral history of women;

É       Documenting and analyzing successful and failed progrmmes of the women’s movements;

É       Collecting cross-cultural caste studies

É       Constantly evaluating research; and

É       .Involving women as agents (instead of objects) of research

 

c) Campaigns :

 

If one is to have an effect in society, it is important to undertake campaign and lobby activities that will put the issue of gender in the minds of the legislators, policy-makers and the large public.  This will therefore mean:

      Pushing for a dialogue between stake holders;

      Raising gender issues within the national policy arena;

      Pressuring to upgrade women’s bureaus into  ministries of women’s affairs;

      Lobbying for sex-equity and affirmative action legislation;

      Lobbying for “counter structural adjustment policies”;

      Organizing pressure groups (like “Greenpeace”);

      Securing access to information;

      Demanding child care centers; and

      Producing video and CDs, T-Shirts etc.

 

d)  Networking :

 

            Through networking, it would be possible to share experiences and learn from one another.  In this manner, understanding and solidarity among women’s organizations, development organizations (governmental/non-government) and multilateral agencies could be forged.

 

v  Organizing at least one meeting  year of gender sensitive organizations;

v  Bringing together donor agencies, governments and NGOs;

v  Setting up a south-south cooperation and exchange;

v  Linking women’s movements all over the world;

v  Establishing alternative credit schemes that offer women access to funds.

 

e) Training :

 

In our societies, there is a gender division of labour which dictates the kind of training one acquires.  If one talks about women’s  empowerment, it is important that women have access to the different training opportunities previously denied them.  This therefore means:

 

• Preparing for jobs that are usually not open to them;
• Providing income-generating projects that are market-oriented;  and
• Training capable female leaders at all levels.

f) Media :

 

Now a days Media is playing vital and important role in the development of the society. Considering the attitudinal barriers in traditional societies and the role which the mass media play in reinforcing them, the following strategies were advanced:

 

v  Organizing mass media campaigns to raise awareness;

v  Creating a social climate friendly to women’s issues;

v  Resisting the tendency to send women back to the kitchen; and

v  Disseminating information about conferences that will take place in the coming years.

 

Finally, It was pointed out that one of the key determinants of successful programmes is the extent to which they had taken the multiple roles of women into account and how they helped in alleviating the burden.

 

These are the suggested components for Women Empowerment:

• Promotion of gender awareness                                             
• Lessons on health and nutrition;                                
• Integration of technical, entrepreneurial, cultural and communal aspects;
• Information and lessons on politics; and
• Provision of planning and thinking skills.

 

            Literacy is a tool that can help women and men understand themselves, their communities and society at large.  Literacy involves change because it offers possibilities of new ways of looking and doing things.  Crucial to education work are other complementary activities such as those in the areas of legal reform, transformation of international economic and political relations, action-oriented research and networking.  It was stressed that it is equally important to convince men that better education of women will be beneficial to the entire family and the society as a whole.

 

References :

Bown, Lalage (1990) Preparing the Future.  Women, Literacy, and Development.  Action Aid Development Report No.4, Sommerset: Action Aid.

 

Carmichael, Stokely, and Hamilton, Charles (1967) Black Power: The Politics of Liberation.  New York: Random House.

 

Commonwealth Secretariat (1989) Engendering Adjustment for the 1990s.  London Commonwealth Secretriat.

 

Evans, Sara (1979) Development Thought and Development Strategies, Riverside: University of California, mimeo.

 

Jack, Raymond(1992) Women and Attempted Suicide.  Hove, U.K.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

 

Lomintz, Larissa (1977) Networks of Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown.  New York: Academic Press.

 

Rao, Aruna, Feldstein, Hilary, Cloud, Kathleen, and Staudt, Kathleen (1991)Gender Training and Development Planning: Lerning from Experience.  Conference Report. Bergan: The Chr. Michelsen Institute.

 

Stomquist, Nelly (1988) Women’s Education in Development: From Welfare to Empowerment, Convergence 21 (4): 5-17.

 

Stomquist, Nelly (1993b) Women’s Literacy and Empowerment in Latin America.  In Carlos Torres (ed.), Edication in Latin America.  Albert Park, Australia: James Nicholas Publishers.

 

UNESCO (1992) EFA 2000 No.9. Paris: UNESCO

 

UNICEF (1987) The Invisible Adjustment.  Poor Women and the Economic Crisis Santiago: UNICEF Regional Office for the Americas and the Carribean.

 

USAID (1990b) The Democratic Initiative.  Washington, D.C.: USAID, December.

 

About the Authors:

* N.V.S.Suryanarayana, M.Sc (Chem)., M.Sc (Geo)., M.A.(Tel.)., M.A (Eng)., M.A (Phil)., M.A (CC&E)., PGDCA., PGDEPM., PGDIPM., CFA., CPFN., CIG., C.Yoga&Con., M.Ed., M.Phil. (Ph.D). Teaching Associate, Department of Education, Andhra University Campus, Vizianagaram, (AP)., India,e-Mail – suryanarayananistala@yahoo.in. 094403 48609 ** Dr.T.J.M.S.Raju  M.A (Psy.), PGDCA., C.Yoga&Con., M.Ed., Ph.D.,  Principal, KPN College of Education, Gantyada, Vizianagaram, District (AP) ***G. Himabindu, M.A(Pol.)., M.Li.Sc., M.A (Edn.)., B.Ed., M.Phil., (Ph.D).  Teaching Associate, Department of Politics., Andhra University Campus, Vizianagaram. ****CH. Alekhya B.Sc., B.Ed., M.A (Eng.)., M.Ed., Scholar, Andhra university Campus, Vizianagaram, E.Mail- missionisias@yahoo.com. 

 

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