Abstract
In our beloved country, there is an immense upturn in awareness about women's rights among all sectors of society. The developmental programs and policies give priority to improving women’s social status. Instead of urbanization and industrialization, our culture and economy are largely agrarian and rural-based. Empowering women may help to promote rural areas and the economy of India which could be gained through social development. Based on every set of indices of development and socio-economic status, women have coped worse than men in all regions and all layers of the population in India. Women’s increased political participation has produced positive results not only for women but also for their families and communities. This study tested the unfortunate conditions of women in our country and analyzed that women are imperative in national development and that unless women are empowered as partners, sustainable development will be impeded. The need to empower Indian women socio-economically and politically for progress in India became a development out of very great necessity. Thus the above entailed this paper.
Keywords: Positive result, unfortunate, imperative, impeded.
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