The role of Administrative reforms and Police Reforms in women empowerment in contemporary scenario.

Abstract

In this digital era society has undergone tremendous transformation to face and deal with the challenges of a vast variety of cybercrime. It necessitates administrative and police reforms aiming at protection and promotion of gender equality and thereby enhancing women empowerment in this digital age. Woman constitute about half of the total human population with varying percentage from country to country and state to state in India. India is a country of unity in diversity with local laws varying from region to region as per the need and aspirations of its people. In India woman women empowerment is a great challenge. There are several dimensions of problems and issues related to women empowerment. Although Indian judiciary is active through judicial pronouncements in bringing about gender equality through its various land mark verdicts. The main hurdle in woman empowerment is the discriminatory attitude prevailing in our society. Not only this but discriminatory law at times also restrict a women’s ability to make a choice of her and restrict their access to several opportunities. Though in present day world many women are aware of their rights and duties but they feel constraint to come out openly due to their dependency, social stigma or fear. Therefore the task of addressing gender inequalities is a great challenge. This challenge can only be addressed by the three wings of governance (legislature, executive and judiciary) with an active support of an awoken society. Expectation of society is primarily from the representative whom they put in power, who is responsible for bringing about desired legislation for woman empowerment. However the role of judiciary arises only when in spite of desired legislation either executive wings of governance fails to implement it or inadequate legislation was drafted which was derogatory to the spirit of constitution. This study is based on exploring these challenges and problems of woman empowerment. Therefore study is based on exploring various judicial decisions, administrative and police reforms measures related to woman empowerment.