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News Title Women empowerment essential for economic growth: Payne
News Contents A country would not realise its full potential if its women population is still discriminated and hence their empowerment is essential for development and economic growth. said US Consul General to India Beth A Payne. Speaking at a seminar in the American Centre here, she said, ''A country will not realise its full potential if half of its population is deprived of education, health care, access to employment and credit-full range of right available to men. Therefore, empowering women is essential for development and economic growth.'' Ms Payne believes that discrimination is like 'a bird in a cage' and each wire of the cage represents an act of discrimination. However, a strong bird can break the wire and fly free. ''While it's very important that we work to minimise gender discrimination it's equally important to empower women so that they can break through the wire of discrimination.'' she remarked. Another important factor in empowering women, according to Ms Payne, is economic freedom. ''When women earn and are not dependent on anyone else for their basic need, they develop the self-confidence to break down the barriers.'' she averred. ''By paying women wage equal to their male counterparts and letting them choose on how to spend that salary, we are creating positive conditions for empowerment,'' the Consul General observed. Other speakers, who shared their views in the seminar, were-Author, film critic and freelance journalist Dr Shoma Chatterjee-Associate Professor and Head of Department of Economy, City College, Kolkata Dr Saswati Ghosh and Dr Rinita Majumdar, Lecturer, Philosophy and Women Studies from University of Mexico, Albuquerque and New Mexico, USA. --UNI
 




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