Chief Minister unveiled the Tamil Nadu State Policy for Women 2024.
It aims to ensure social justice for all and provide women access to their rightful entitlements.
It will be enabling them to lead a harmonious and peaceful life with equitable opportunities to realise their true potential and aspirations for a sustainable tomorrow.
The policy will be implemented over a period of ten years.
The state envisages to raise the status of women through awareness, education, gainful employment and capacity building initiatives.
The objective of the policy framework is to
Enable access to services such as health, education and employment,
Enabling conducive conditions that restructure gender norms and behaviour linked changes,
Zero tolerance against any kind of discrimination, abuse and violence against women,
Empower them to break gender stereotyping and
Enable them to excel in every sector.
The policy would improve health and nutrition status of adolescent girls and women, besides increasing their participation in the workplace.
By promoting digital literacy to bridge the digital gender gap and support women for remunerative placements, the policy also encourages active participation of women in politics.
The policy would cover women-headed households (single women, widows, and deserted women), women from oppressed communities, women engaged in vulnerable occupations, differently-abled women, and women in informal and formal sector.
A high-level women empowerment committee headed by the Chief Secretary including all the line department shall meet once in six months to review the implementation of the policy and suggest mid-term course corrections.
Similarly, the district level monitoring committee headed by the district collector shall overview the implementation once in two months.