Women Empowerment
For decades, there have been different kinds of empowered people thanks to social justice.
Social justice is a multi-dimensional struggle that has been going on for decades. If we were to define
social justice, it would be a moral and political construct that aims at equal rights and conceives of the
need for collective solidarity among people in a given society. With regard to the empowerment of
women, justice would be defined as the granting of more power to individuals or groups to act on the
social, economic, political or ecological conditions they face. It is therefore interesting to look at what
events in the past decades have shown how women empowerment leads to social justice? We will first
see which events have raised awareness. In the second, we will see what has changed public and
societal mentalities. Then to finish, how they managed to assert themselves and defend their
important place.
It has taken time for women to question why they have been excluded from any protest
movement, even a pacifist one. Furthermore, to become aware of this inequality and lack of social
justice. Gandhi, a famous politician and spiritual guide, paved the way for this thinking in India. He was
always critical of the treatment of women in India, which they had and “have an important place in
public life and should not be locked up at home.” (A Force More Powerful, 2001)
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. And yet, when it
was time to take action, he would rethink the risks they faced. They were not allowed to make or sell
salt. Nor were they allowed to participate in protest marches. However, they “disobeyed” him, and it
was at this point that awareness was most important, as they disassociated themselves from their
“mentor” and took the reins of the movement themselves. This is why the 1930s in India was decisive
in gaining the sense of freedom and justice they had never encountered before then. However, it’s not
simple, the current situation is still tense even though the women’s conscience is unanimous.
Once the patriarchate is aware of this awareness. We must give ourselves the means to change
