Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust - Women's Empowerment Organizations

India is a country where women have always been respected and worshiped as goddesses. But with the influence of the invaders and foreign rulers, this respect diminished and today, even when goddesses are duly worshiped, the real women in the society are looked down upon. Their exploitation in the family and society is evident and the crime against women rate is at all-time high. Although people are getting more education than ever, but in this male chauvinistic society, the women are not able to get enough rights to survive fearlessly, let alone the equal rights. Especially in the rural scenario, they aren’t respected, they are not allowed to get education or vocational training and in the scarcity of money, they have to go out to others’ homes to do cleaning and washing, for which they are paid peanuts. And it doesn’t end here, being completely dependent on their husbands’ mercy, they are often at the receiving end of domestic violence.  There are many women's empowermen