Tailoring and Women Empowerment

Women's empowerment has been pointed out as an indispensable condition to reduce poverty in developing countries of the world. Also, it has been closely related to democratization of those countries, in providing women with rights and opportunities equal to those which men have enjoyed so far. Despite its significance, the issue cannot be said to be solved easily, because there are many factors that prevent its progress. Nevertheless, due to gender discrimination, women tend to be granted an inferior status in nearly every aspect of life. The discrimination that they face is greater and more in developing countries than in developed countries. In this regard, this paper aims to study about the Women Empowerment on Tailoring, especially for economic development. For this purpose, the study deals with empowerment of rural women through self-income generating activity. The study was conducted in Naduvaikuruchi village of Puthiamputhur Panchayat of Thoothukudi District, Tamilnadu.