Emerging Priorities Identified by the 12th Plan The key elements for Gender Equity to be addressed in the Twelfth Five Year Plan were: Economic Empowerment: a. Employment generation with equity in work conditions, b. Skill development, c. Special promotion of enterprises of home-based workers/small producers, d. Women in agriculture, manufacturing, unorganized sector Social and Physical Infrastructure: a. Health, b. Education, c. Sanitation, d. Transportation, e. Energy and natural resources management, f. Urban planning and livelihoods, g. Climate change, h. Engendering the media Enabling Legislations: a. The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques ACT (PC-PNDT Act), b. Maternity Benefit Act, c. Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, d. Improving Implementation of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA) and Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA) Women’s Participation in Governance: a. Women in Panchayats, b. Women in Urban Bodies, c. Women in Legislative Bodies Inclusiveness of all categories of vulnerable women: a. Scheduled caste women, b. Scheduled tribe women, c. Differently-abled women, d. Women of religious minorities, e. Single women and widows, f. Elderly women, g. Women affected with HIV/aids, h. Migrant workers, i. Women in disturbed areas, j. Trafficked women, k. Women in prison, l. Transgender communities |