Femsakhi works to develop self esteem and awareness among women. Armed with knowledge and awareness we can prepare ourselves to identify and benefit from the right opportunities and empower thyselves!

School closures, work from home, lock down, lack of health infrastructure have impacted women the most. Not only women are economically vulnerable also increase in domestic violence against women came as a side effect of the COVID 19.

Just 30% of the world's researchers are women. While a growing number of women are enrolling in university, many opt out at the highest levels required for a research career. When comes to India Only 14% of Indian researchers are women. even when women are enrolled in PG and PhD in greater number, they fail to convert their degrees into careers due to the biological clock and family pressures.

Expanding women’s access to financial products and services is one of the most powerful contributors to their economic empowerment. In India finances are also considered prerogative of men. Most of men have individual bank account and is not shared with their wife. Even in the case when a woman is earning and have bank account, man of the family is operating their account. Also, when it comes to financial decisions, in most of the cases man takes the decision while woman’s participation is passive. As per survey done by Women’s world banking less than 1% women are aware of their family net worth.

When a girl sees a woman as her guide, she gets the inspiration to be like her guide. Studies have concluded that having women professors increases female enrollment and performance in the class. Also, women only universities help to bridge the gap of women in higher studies. Women teachers and leaders are inspiration and torchbearer of gender equity. It is important to recognize inspiring teachers in who have guiding and encouraging girl students.

To bridge the gender gap, we need women role models who can be looked up to by young girls . We need to develop leadership skills so that well educated women can have a belief in herself, has a willingness to nurture and aren’t afraid to help. We need women leader to bring the change. When more and more women will lead, more will be the female representation in decision making. This will help us to close the gender gap.

When it comes to choosing a career, exposure is very important. Normally parents aren’t very aware, and girls can end up picking courses which are not job oriented or due to patriarchy reasons girls don't work. In the absence of jobs girls loose confidence while other doing jobs are not better than her it is just that they are the part of system. Counseling is required to show the big picture and select/ eliminate options based on the job availability, ones education level, and opportunities of career progression. A mentor can help candidate to see the true picture and explain paying options which can lead to a career, candidate can sometime not see these due to limited exposure or their biases and prejudice. Mentor also make a development plan to get job and reach at once full potential.

In India Fitness is considered men only activity, overall, we are lazy and only 10% adult do minimum physical activities as required by WHO guidelines . Among women Only 3% meet the minimum healthy levels of physical activity, which brings a clutch of health benefits such as reductions in the risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, breast and colon cancer, obesity, depression, risk of falls, and improvements in bone and functional health. It is must that women are aware of advantages of physical activities and have a routine where they dedicated one hour every day on their fitness!

Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. As per MGI advancing woman’s equity can add $12 trillion to global growth. But discrimination against women and girls is a pervasive and long-running phenomenon. Patrilineality (inheritance through male descendants) play a central role in gender inequality and preference for son. In India on one hand women have lesser opportunities , on the other hand women do almost five times as much unpaid care family work as men. For India to be a leader effort are needed to bring women in parity with men.

Communication is said and known to be among a woman’s strongest skill. But for getting a job, working with peers, presenting ideas, or leading team need different communication strategy and skills. Confidently voicing your opinion in conversations and meetings, respecting the other opinions (regardless of gender), then having a mature discussion of how to resolve conflicts in thought is a sign of an excellent communicator. Not only leader but all men/women should have opportunity to hone their communication skills so that their message is clear, talk is precise and cohesive.