Empowering Indian Women Through Resilience

The book examines various aspects of women empowerment in South Asia, particularly in India. The term “empowerment” refers to women’s liberation from social-economic restraints of reliance. Women worldwide actively work as leaders and establish new dimensions in all fields. Yet, in India, although women comprise around 50% of India’s population, most stay economically dependent, and in most Indian villages and towns, women are still denied fundamental education. After more than 75 years of independence as a country, we need to take a long-overdue in-depth look at empowering women in India and how women empowerment should be a powerful tool for national development. This book aims to discuss the empowerment of women through examining the social and personal challenges faced by women, as well as evaluating areas such as gender discrimination, education opportunity, and employment opportunity.

Dr. Abha Singh is presently working as a professor and head in the Department of Psychology at PPNPG College, Kanpur. A total of 24 years of teaching experience in UG and PG courses. A major research project received from UGC has been successfully submitted. Currently, two research projects are running in the department as a principal investigator she is working on. She has published more than 30 research papers. Six chapters contributed to a national-level book. Around 80 research papers were presented at national and international seminars. Presently, three research scholars are doing PhD under the supervision of Dr. Abha Singh, and one PhD awarded. Dr. Abha Singh coordinated the session 2021–2022 Pre-PhD course. ICSSR supported the national seminar conducted by Dr. Abha Singh in November 2022. Dr. Singh has organized many guest lectures and workshops. She holds many administrative responsibilities and academic activities. Dr. Rahul Bhadouria is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published more than 22 papers, 22 book chapters, and 8 edited books in internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are management of soil C dynamics to mitigate climate change, a perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of climate change, plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India, recovery of degraded mountains in central Himalayas and urban ecology. Dr. Sachchidanand Tripathi is an associate professor at the Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology, ecophysiology, and urban ecology. He has published more than 50 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) and 5 books with reputed international journals and publishers. Dr. Ritu Modi is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Allahabad. She has obtained her doctoral degree in the area of mental health. She has fifteen years of teaching and research experience. She has taught courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition, she has developed the curricula and taught the career-oriented course of the Diploma in Guidance and Counselling. She has published 32 research papers on various psychological topics related to mental health at national and international levels with reputed national and international publishers, including well-being, happiness, and social media. Her research interest areas are positive psychology, cross-cult