Women empowerment: a study on emerging trends in Tamil Nadu

This study focuses on the emerging trends reveal certain significant development in the sphere of women empowerment in Tamil Nadu. With the help of state initiatives and the NGOs the empowerment process assumes positive achievement. The following points are obvious in the process of women empowerment in Tamil Nadu. Both tradition and modernity historically played a significant role in deciding the status of women in Tamil Nadu. Global and national policy decisions had corresponding impact on the policy decisions of the state government. Tamil Nadu has its own social, economic, and political conditions apart from global and national trends for making policy decisions in empowering women. Non-governmental organizations have played a major role in implementing the policies in relation to women's empowerment. Empowerment of women is a level playing of various factors such as individual efforts, social attitude. State's initiative and the work of non-governmental organizations. In this context,Women empowerment to strengthening women's position in social economic and political power structure of the society. It also implies capacity building with the leading role plagued by the State and non-state organizations.