Women Empowerment - A Cause for Increasing Divorce Rate in India

I completely disagree from the above statement. As we are living in a democratic country where both men's and women's are given equal rights. I think all women's should be self sufficient in earning money. Because one educated women can educate whole home.

And I don't think this reason can ever lead to her divorce. Because education and knowledge only helps an individual in fulfilling their needs and to fight in today's world.

Hello friends,

According to me, women empowerment is necessary for the benefit of the society in large. For example: if a man is educated and he is capable of doing certain things, why not women? if a women is educated, she can educate the whole family and the surroundings near by. Women are the backbones of the society. And if we say it is a cause for increasing divorce rate then we are demoralizing our own society. Earlier people were not that much educated and they were unaware of their human rights, now people are developing their minds, they have options in their lives, for eg: if you purchased anything and after that you realized oops it not the right thing, what I needed then you can exchange as per your requirement and same is the case with divorce. If the spouse are not satisfied then there is no point of living together.

So, women empowerment is not a cause for increasing divorce rate in India.

The argument that women empowerment is the reason for the increasing divorce rates is not entirely logically convincing because it ignores certain crucial assumptions.

Firstly, it assumes that the divorce rates were less when women were not a part of the professional/corporate world and dependent totally on their husbands in all respects. Lets discuss here first what does divorce mean? Does it necessarily mean the husband and wife separated under legal conditions? Or does it simply refers to a failed marriage? Domestic violence, ego clashes, sexual harassment-are these not the reasons of failed marriages? If yes, then these were prevalent even before the women were "empowered".

If, today, a woman is strong and independent enough to come out and demand for the separation from her husband just because she does not need her life to be miserable, we blame it on the empowerment. It is true that women have become stronger, educated and less vulnerable but the motive was never to break apart their families.

Some might argue that women empowerment leads to ego clashes between the spouses but it is equally reasonable to argue that men can't bring themselves to believe that today their wives are shoulder to shoulder with them and some in fact are even ahead of them. So, it is not the empowerment which has created the ego clashes, it is the inability of some (not all) men to adapt to the changes which have been brought about due to empowerment.

Secondly, the argument never addresses the fact that women empowerment has decreased the rate of domestic violence which ideally should be the reason for divorce. Therefore, the motives of women empowerment were never wrong but the consequences might differ as per how people expect an educated woman to be.

According to me, there is no relation between women's empowerment and divorce cases as,

WOMAN EMPOWERMENT means providing women equal rights in the society as of men.

Whereas,

DIVORCE take place due to the lack of mutual understanding between husband and wife. The man always has domineering nature and the main problem is with EGOISM.

I think women empowerment is not the reason behind the divorce. Women empowerment helps women to come forward to occupy their rights, their status in the society rather than being silent and tolerating all types of domestic violence.

I think now a days the divorces are occurring because both the man and woman have become impatient towards each other. If both the partners adjust equally in maintaining their relationship and be loyal to each other forgetting about their own ego than only these types of problems can be solved.

In my point of view women empowerment and increasing cases of divorce are different things. Women empowerment means give them power to make them equal as their male counterpart. It is justice with them to get equal status as man in the society. Why should they bear the odd for that they are not responsible.

However increasing case of divorce is due to mismatch of couple in education, in status, in approach, family values and many more which leads to take this last step.

After marriage the word using by modern brides like My career, My Job, My surname, My family, My education the word 'MY (Mera) ' is like sand, and the sand never dissolve in water (husband/in-laws) to make water (Solution) as sweet drink. And the sand will be seems separately on water whole life.

After marriage the word using by bride like our house, our children, our family, our reputation, our happiness & Darrow the word OUR (Hamare) is like sugar, and the sugar always dissolve in water (husband/in-laws) to make water (solution) as sweet drink (sweet stable relationship) And the sugar made water sweet by dissolved her own identity in water but her taste always remains forever in water.

Be the 'SUGAR' & not 'SAND'. Any girl/bride has so many own issues then she should not be married and she should remain unmarried for her so called freedom, etc. and a man or in-laws should not be cheated by this-that reasons made by bride.

In my point of view, women empowerment is never caused for increasing divorce rate in India. Because empowerment creates how to educate our family and how to live in our society. Taking divorce is only depends upon the couple behaviour. If there is no mutual understanding, lack of love in a couple, no adjustment and patience, it will cause to take a divorce.

So, every couple in a family is facing a lot of problems. The main thing is an adjustment. For instance, if we take our parents, they were also facing many problems in their lives but they are still living together. I think women empowerment is not a cause for increasing divorce rate in India.

'Women empowerment leading to increased divorce rates', this is partly true.

Women empowerment is necessary for every women because of the following:

- Having decision making power of their own.
- Having access to information and resources for taking proper decision.
- Ability to exercise assertiveness in collective decision making.

Nowadays parents educate their daughters to empower them. (No getting a fat-pay job.
Doesn't only mean women empowerment. Women might choose to do some philanthropist.
Work for example. ) Yes, in comparison to women in 70's and 80's, women of 90's and as.

Well as today's women are more empowered. They know their rights, self-dependent, have decision making power, have positive self-image.

But these are only the positive aspect of women empowerment, the negative aspects of women empowerment are as follows:

- They misuse their rights, for example IPC Section 406 and many others.
- Most (not all) women, mainly working, harass their husbands at home, which leads to divorce. There are laws for women harassment, but men are equally harassed which goes unnoticed. Yes, it is arguably true.

So to conclude, to be unempowered is not good, but to be over empowered is also not good for the society.

- Women empowerment do not leads divorce cases condition.
- The women gets more freedom to take any decision by own self.
- Behind maximum divorce, there is more fault of men.
- If we want to decrease the divorce rate, then first of all men should have to change the mentality.

Thanks.