Women Empowerment Cell

Preamble:

Empowering women is indispensable to the health and social development of families, communities and countries. Women Empowerment Cell functions for upholding equality in all dimensions.

Vision:

To empower women to realize their strength at 360 degree dimension, which will equip them to compete for equal opportunities in their personal and professional life.

Mission:

Educating women for acquiring knowledge in the legal, economic, social and political aspects through training women to develop skills to apply knowledge for their prosperity and human kind

Objectives:

To sensitize the college community on the need for empowerment of women
To counsel women boarders and nonresident women students
To enable the stakeholders in empowering women students
To help women students understand their strength and potential
To convene various sensitization programmes regarding Prevention of Sexual Harassment.

FACULTY COMPOSITION

S. No	Name of the committee members	Designation	Department
1	Mrs.A. Jaya Padma	Co-ordinator	Department of Social Work
2	Mrs.V.Saraswathi	Member	Department of Computer Science
3	Dr.Sujatha Bhai	Member	Department of Indian Languages
4	Dr.K.Umadevi	Member	School of Commerce
5	Mrs.B.Devarani	Member	Department of English
6	Dr.N.Ravichandran	Member	School of Commerce
7	Dr.D.Sreeja	Member	Department of Mathematics

STUDENT COMPOSITION

Sl.No.	Name	Designation	Department
1	Ms. Maheswari.M	Student	II M.Sc. Biochemistry
2	Ms. Kezia K.Saji	Student	I MSW
3	Ms. Binu Joshua	Student	I MCA
4	Ms. Sreeshma	Student	III B.Com A&F
5	Ms. Harini J	Student	II BCA
6	Ms.Varshini. S	Student	I B.Sc IT

Responsibilities of Women Empowerment Cell:

To promote equality outside the confines of gender
To sensitize on Women
To uplift women folk in the Society by income generation

Activities Performed during the Academic Year 2023-2024

S.No.	Date	Name of the Activity	Target Group	Total No. participants	Outcome
1	21.09.2023	Workshop on Getting Lost in Digital World	Teachers of CMS Vidhya Mandir MHSS, Manikaranpalayam	40	Impact of Digitalization among children
2	25.09.2023	Awareness on First Aid and Menstrual Cups	Biotechnology, Psychology, Computer Science and Social Work students	357	Knowledge on First Aid and Advantages of Menstrual Cups
3	08.03.2024	International Women’s Day (Session I)	Girl students and Female Faculty of CMS College	629	Major causes for Cancer among Women and availability of therapeutic vaccines and preventive measures
4	08.03.2024	International Women’s Day (Session II)	Girl students and Female Faculty of CMS College	629	Knowledge on Menstrual and Reproductive Health

Activities performed during the Academic Year 2022-23

S.No.	Date	Name of the Activity	Target Group	Total No. participants	Outcome
1	19.10.2022	Webinar on Awareness on Breast Cancer	MSW, Commerce, Information Technology, Computer Applications students	88	Effort to detect early and symptoms associated with Breast Cancer
2	01.11.2022	Awareness on Puthumaipenn Scheme	6^th To 12^th Stds. Students Studied In Tamil Nadu Govt. Schools	35	To avail rupees 1000 per month to support higher education
3	08.03.2023	International Women’s Day	Girl students of CMS College	636	To instill self- worth and enhance confidence among women

Activities performed during the Academic Year 2021-22

S.No.	Date	Name of the Activity	Target Group	Total No. participants	Outcome
1	01-12-2021	Live Life	PG Students of CMS College	48	Developed positive mindset
2	14.12.2021	Gender sensitization	Girls students of CMS College	120	Promoted the Gender harmony
3	08.03.2022	International women’s Day (Crime against Women and Children)	Girl Students of CMS College	580	Creating appropriate means of protection

Activities performed during the Academic Year 2020-21

S.No.

Date

Name of the Activity

Target Group

Total No. participants

Outcome

01.10.2020

Women Related Laws

Social Work

Students of CMS College

Gained insight on Women Laws

08.03.2020

International Women’s Day (Cyber Security)

PG Students and Few faculties of CMS College

Knowledge about precautionary measures to be safe in Cyber world

Activities performed during the Academic Year 2019-20

S.No.	Date	Name of the Activity	Target Group	Total No. participants	Outcome
1	22.08.2019	Cost Effective Marketing	Students of CMS College	384	To develop business knowledge
2	11.10.2019	Urogenital Cancer Awareness	Teaching and Non-teaching Faculties of CMS College	167	Prevention and early detection
3	09.03.2020	Empowering Young Women Leaders Lecture Series	Girl Students of CMS College	780	Understand the right to access to opportunities .

Activities performed during the Academic Year 2018-19

S.No.	Date	Name of the Activity	Target Group	Total No. participants	Outcome
1	12.09.2018	Emerging New Gender Equations– The Legal Perspective	UG Students of CMS College	432	Awareness of Laws
2	09.10.2018	Legal Aspects Related To Sexual Harassment	Girls Students of CMS College	147	Understood the Law and recognized their rights.
3	08.03.2019	Digital Women	Girl Students of CMS College	772	Increased efficiency in career and better problem solving.

Activities performed during the Academic Year 2017-18

S.No.	Date	Name of the Activity	Target Group	Total No. participants	Outcome
1	09.09.2017	Help Yourself – Generating Income	Local community of Pasur Village	22	Economic Empowerment
2	18.09.2017	How to Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	II MSW Students	53	Learnt to provide CPR
3	08.03.2018	International Women’s Day	Girl Students of CMS College	644	Shared problems encountered and made students to accept Third Gender by removing the stigma.