Women: Empowered in India, Really???

Empowerment in the case of women means the participation of women at the multiple levels. Here the participation does not mean playing second fiddle to their male counterparts, but to assert themselves and to play a decisive role in the decision making process. Empowerment of women in India cannot be measured with the success of the few but there are certain parameters with the help of which we can measure the degree of the empowerment of the women. So there is a need to analyze the parameters which measure women empowerment. The paper highlights the various parameters to measure and quantify the women empowerment and concludes that empowerment has multiple, interrelated and interdependent dimensions which can be understood in relation to resources, perceptions, relationship and power. The paper also answers the question that what does women empowerment mean which will help the women to be empowered to save themselves and their related lives.