A Conceptual Study on Issues, Challenges and Ways of Women Empowerment in India

This paper attempts to analyze the state of Women Empowerment in India and highlights the Issues and Challenges of concern with it and ways to empower them. Today, the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women?s ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. The process of empowerment is multi-dimensional and it enables women to realise their full destiny and powers in all spheres of life. A women?s empowerment begins with consciousness?perceptions about herself and her rights, her capabilities and her potentials, awareness of how gender and socio-cultural and political forces affect her.