*Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India.
**Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology (DDE), Annamalai University, Tmilnadu, India.
Online published on 21 January, 2013.
The Eleventh Plan will address these problems by looking at gender as a crosscutting theme. It will recognize women's agency and the need for women's empowerment. At the same time it will ensure the survival, protection, and all-round development of children of all ages, communities and economic groups. Therefore, this paper aims to focuses on status of women: an approach to the eleventh five year plan.
