Women empowerment alone will improve society: Social Welfare Minister

‘They had not got their due share in the last 10 years’

Only when womenfolk in a society was respected and protected, there would be an opportunity for sustained peace and an overall development in all spheres, said Social Welfare Minister Geetha Jeevan here on Saturday.

Speaking at a workshop organised at the Collectorate, with the objective to formulate and reconstruct the guidelines by the State government, where a large number of women representatives from various walks of life participated, the Minister said that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had clearly stated that womenfolk had not got their due share in the last 10 years.

There were many irregularities and malpractice at various levels and loopholes were used to escape from crimes such as domestic violence, dowry harassment among others in which women were the victims, she said.