BECAUSE WE ARE WOMEN?

This Paper attempts to analyse the status of Women Empowerment in India and highlights the issues and challenges on women Health, Gender inequality and violation against women. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concern of 21th century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe that in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. The study reveals that women of India are relatively disempowered and they enjoy somewhat lower status than that of men in spite of many efforts undertaken by Government. It is found that acceptance of unequal gender norms by women are still prevailing in the society. The study concludes by an observation that access to Education, Employment and Change in social Structure are only the enabling factors to Women Empowerment but somewhere the basic root for all sufferings of women start within the home.