Empowerment of Women: A Systematic Analysis

The empowerment of women is a contemporary issue regardless of the country in which a social planner tries to bring a sustainable development. Though women empowerment is not a sufficient condition it is still a necessary condition in order to stabilize and in turn to have sustainability of the development process. This paper by characterizing the women empowerment tries to obtain a scientific measure of empowerment. The measure obtained in this paper is argued to be scientific because the theoretical model is proved to be more realistic by building another empirical model to capture the self-perception of the women, for their empowerment. The result of the empirical models helps to deduce some of the most crucial factors to be considered by the social planner for any policy initiatives in this regard. Therefore this paper systematically and consistently characterizes the empowerment of women. The recommendations made by this paper carries a limitation that it is all based on a homogeneous sample i.e., PGT teachers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.