AN ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL SCENARIO OF WIDOWS

In the society one side women is getting highest success in life and second side she suffers by many problems. Much time they are culturally, socially, economically and politically excluded from the mainstream of the society. In the process of globalisation societal structure has changed but traditional rules could not be changed. This has created very worst position of widows in her family. This research is basically focused on global scenario of widows and widow’s life in different countries. A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed Widowhood. In 2015, the global affected population was 258,481,056 million widows with 584,574,358 children. The number of children of widows grew by 5.7 percent. Over the same period, the number of widows grew by 9.0 percent. A minimum estimate of 38,261,345 million widows 14.8 percent of the total live in extreme poverty where basic needs go unmet.