Education is a Tool for Women Empowerment

Education as a means of empowerment of women, can bring about a positive attitudinal change. Education signi cantly makes a difference in the lives of women. Education is a key factor for empowerment. The paper talks about the status of women’s education and also analyzes the factors which motivate women to start their venture and the problems faced by them when they ventured out to carve their niche in the competitive world of empowerment. Empowerment, in a broad sense, involves penning the mind, building a sense of positive self-worth, enhancing self-esteem and self-con dence, and acquiring the ability to clinch the unequal and unjust world from a position of potency. No society has ever emancipated itself economically, politically, or socially –without a sound base of educated women. An attempt is made to understand the growth of women’s empowerment through education