Women Empowerment - A Cause for Increasing Divorce Rate in India

Yes, Women empowerment is the cause, because in India, women's taking the word women empowerment for granted. Since women are earning more than men many women feel not to get married or think why should they listen or compromise to others, and have become more arrogant and egoistic than women's of previous generations. Women's of this generation want to live life as per their terms and conditions than mutual decisions of their partner. Unless stringent laws which makes divorce a stringent process and gender equality, more and more divorce will happen than marriages in this country.

Can a woman beat man in Olympics or sports?

Can a woman beat man in tough Intellectual stuff? There is only one Einstein. Even Science agrees Men have better IQ than women.

Can a woman beat man in Spirituality? Even the great Buddha thought 20 times before allowing women to Monkhood. Why? Because even he knew Women are dumb creatures and giving spirituality to women is like giving banana to a monkey.

It is a fact and science agrees that Men have greater will-power than Women. When a man decides something he invariably does it, A man takes secrets to his grave. Can we say the same thing about Women? Women are fickle minded and change their decisions every minute.

However there are certain things in which Women are better than Men.

Can a Man match Woman in giving Motherhood?

Can a Man match Women in Patience?

So Man and Women have individual strengths. But Women being idiots start matching Men in every damn field.

These so called Women Writers who talk about Women empowerment. Someone should go see their lives. Most of these writers are western women who have been divorced 3-4 times and are living Lonely miserable lives.

Think Women think !.

Good morning friends.

I am here to share my point of views.

Woman empowerment is something which gives woman equal chances to participate or to compete in every field with man. It makes women aware of their rights and freedom. Friends we have been living in a male dominating society where men are superior race.

Earlier women were not allowed to take part in any decision making, they were easy prey of violence and were not allowed to speak even a single word even after violence with them. They were deprived of their basic rights. Even today in many forms or for academic purpose management ask fathers name, why can't they ask for mothers name also?

Now with the empowerment of women they have come to know their rights, their freedom. So they don't want to get discriminated by male. This creates problem because men just can't tolerate to see demeaning their position in the society. They want to rule the society and still think as the superior race in the society. But now woman of our society giving man tough competition.

So even woman start argumenting and the situation becomes heated.

This may one of the cause of increased divorce.

In the end I want to conclude that its the fault of the woman empowerment programmes for increased divorce. Its just for the upliftment of a retarded race of the society.

We man and woman of the society should understand the value of relation. Its just our thoughts that are causing increased divorce.

We need to make it amenable for each other.

Thank you.

In my opinion, women empowerment is something that has been initiated to let the women know about their rights. In a way it has given them strength to act against the Violence's upon women in society. Relationship and women empowerment are two different things. Relationships are based on understanding and two people respecting each other.

Hence empowerment of women cannot be a reason behind the number of increasing divorces. If a husband is proud of his wife who is working as well as maintaining household work at the same time, then the serenity of the relationship will always be maintained.

Hi guys.

So as per the topic, I would like to present my views on it.

If you say they are both different but yes somehow connected with each other.

Divorce happens when there ia a misunderstanding or maybe the are not adjusting with each others nature but then why is women empowerment coming in it? Cause our society is male dominating and women are forced to sit back home and earlier no women was allowed to work, so they were fully dependent on men but today as the women are empowered they are self made so no more depended on men and can live alone. Divorce and women empowerment are connected as early years when women were not treated well or given equal rights men used to ill treat women and as women's were dependent on men they could not take any step but used to just tolerate it but today if this happened no need to tolerate it you have opportunities you can live alone and do better it's not about women It's about the behaviour of the society toward them and that must changed, women's thoughts should be respected as men.

Thanks.

The Indian society has to accept that we have double standards in everything we do. There is no doubt that the modern Indian women have been truly empowered. However Please ask yourself following questions:

1. Does just education and freedom mean empowerment? My point is one is truly empowered if education and knowledge is exhibited and used in a proper way. As an individual (be it a male or female) you get truly empowered when you also realize that for everything you get from your parents or society you also have a role to play, you cannot run away from responsibilities if some rights have been granted. E.g., if you have all the rights to be independent and come home late then you also have the responsibilities of at least informing your family and not indulging in an act which causes embarrassment to you or your loved ones. No I am not talking about dress code.

2. Are we truly heading toward an unbiased society (from gender's perspective)? We indians still believe that it is the duty of the man to earn the living for the family and it is the duty of the women to do basic chores like cooking, washing etc. at home. Why don't we encourage girls to study while keeping in mind that they have to utilize the education later on by also focusing on a career. Boys still get a scolding like "you won't do anything good if you don't study hard and later on find a job as soon as possible", a lot of parent force their daughters to study further just for the sake of getting degrees, so that they can boast of the same at the time of finding a suitable match for the daughter. The reverse holds true when it comes to boys parent just make them focus on studies and not learning some home chores.

3. Please go to any matrimonial site or read an matrimony weekly on a local newspaper, in the grooms wanted columns whenever you see girl working as so and so and earning abc per anum they also mentions boys package should be abc+ or even in most cases abc*2 per annum. Why cann't it be boy should be earning at the same level and must know some cooking etc?

4. Quality level of education imparted has decreased substantially. You can easily spot people holding master's degree looking for a job from last 5 years or settling for a job not belonging to their forte. While on the other hand there are people who just managed to get their degree by correspondence and after 3-4 years they are at a good level compared to the earlier league.

I am not trying to say that women empowerment has resulted in increase in divorces. I am just trying to point out that with empowerment one has to accept the set of responsibilities that arise as a consequence. Hope you understand

I think know one is thinking about what is going to happen in future with the current trends.

1. Increase in Divorces. Don't go by %age as the population is also increasing rapidly.

2. Increase in Inter-Caste / Love marriages. May be good but most of the time fails or leads to elementary family & Ignored aged Parents without support.

3. * Increase in Unmarried individuals(Singles both men & women).

There are thousands of unmarried individuals even at the age of 40+

Reasons:

A). Unable to find suitable match (Mostly because women are more educated or economically sophisticated than men or expectations not matching of both. ).

B). Because of such incomplete laws New marriage (Amendment) bill, IPC 498a. Why should anyone take risk. I See "Live Single, Be happy" status quotes of many men. When marriage itself is sharing everything with each other, why should there be a law to specify. If specified, why it does not define something like.

1. Divorce can be possible only after 6 months of marriage(Exceptional on special cases).

2. Divorce is not possible if married for more than 10 years(I don't know what reasons can lead to divorce after living together for 10 years). They can live separate without divorce as well right.

3. Divorced within 3 years will not get the benefit of the new "Marriages Law (Amendment) Bill". However if Children are born, both take the equal responsibility of their children's. How stupid is the law which states only after 3 years of staying separate they can apply for divorce. So the law is to separate them not to keep them together.

Obvious, if the person is separating from her spouse, she has decided to live independently on her own or she can re-marry. Why should she ask for compensation or share in ex-husbands property.

4. If dowry is of a concern : Punish both Husband and wife and both their family. Because at the time of marriage they both had agreed on dowry (for whatever the reason could be), and when conflict starts only Husband and His Family are treated as accused/culprits.

One of the famous female lawyer stated on a TV news Channel that she has helped a woman to get divorce 5 times and 6th time she rejected to take-up the case. What a pity.

I would say let empowerment happen, but not in such a manner wherein Marriage itself will become History and obviously there will not be scope for Divorce :).

Best solution. Remove all laws and go in for pre-marriage agreement between boy and the girl. Precaution is better than prevention :).

I don't think so that the women empowerment is the cause for divorce rates in India. Women empowerment helps in overall development of the country. It creates general awareness among women towards their rights and responsibilities. If a woman is educated its whole family gets educated.

The main cause of divorce is a lack of maturity, trust, and support. So, divorce has no relation with women empowerment.

In past centuries men had right over a woman and even if the woman had problems in family life, she just suppressed it or suffered it. So the divorce rates were less. In this century woman has the power, she has the freedom to show her opinions, she has the right to take her decisions. I e men and woman are treated equally. And the divorce rates has increased because the woman started reacting. In a family life, both husband and wife should understand each other. Respect each other. And if there is no such rapport, let them leave. If they wish to. It's all up to them. To adjust or to leave. Woman empowerment is not the cause of divorce. But woman empowerment has made divorce possible, where it was necessary.

In my point view, women empowerment is not a cause of divorce. Divorce rate depends on the mutual understanding mutual trust and on the compatibility between them. And women empowerment is an entirely different thing. Women empowerment means to give authority to take decision independently. Even educated women can run their family better. She can educate their children properly. Sometimes husbands feel insulted due to their uneducated wife and they started to fight and they don't love her and this becomes the cause of divorce. If the husband is educated then an educated wife or women can read his mind his lifestyle better than uneducated women and can adjust properly. And women empowerment helps in developing the country economically and it creates equality. Hence according to me, women empowerment is not a reason of divorce rate somehow it helps in decreasing the divorce rate.