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ABSTRACT

Women have been the backbone of Indian economy, who are shouldering multifarious responsibilities in household chores. In this  scenario, rural women multifarious responsibilities in household chores. In this scenario, rural women play a critical role in the process of moving their families out of poverty, around30 per cent to 35 per cent of the rural Indian households are estimated as headed by women. But in rural India, empowerment of women is still complicated due to the dominance of patriarchal society. But the women from the rural society play a vital role in their social, cultural, economic asset in their society. Say for example, women belonging to small and marginal farm households work not only on their own uneconomical fields, but supplement family earnings by working on others field too. But, they are still lagging far behind in the various walks of life like education, employment, health, economic empowerment, etc., Particularly, Women belonging to Dalit communities are multi-exploited for being born as women in the Hindu culture and as lower caste group. They are oppressed as women in their own society and are also marginalized in all aspects of individual development viz., social, economic and political. In this context, rural Dalit women are in capacities to pursue any independent economic activity due to lack of motivation, to access resources etc., will  hasten  the  pace  of  sustainable rural development. The present study makes an attempt to highlight the status and level of empowerment obtained from the rural Dalit women as well as to suggest suitable remedial measures to overcome the situations at grassroots level. In this backdrop, the present study makes an attempt to highlight the socioeconomic status, attitude of girl child and level of empowerment obtained from the rural Dalit women. The present study has been conducted in Karur District, Tamil nadu.