WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES

Over the last few decades, women's empowerment has been a topic of intense debate and reflection all over the world. This agenda has also been at the top of the lists of most government plans and programmes. Efforts to solve this issue and improve women's socioeconomic status have been made regularly across nations. However, it has been found that most policies and initiatives see empowerment solely in economic terms, assuming that economic self-sufficiency empowers women while ignoring other factors such as health, education, literacy, and so on. The study discusses the concerns and challenges of women's empowerment in India and offers some intriguing findings.