Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered concept. Women's empowerment is a process in which women gain greater share ofcontrol OlJer resources material, human and intellectual like knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money and access to money and control OlJer decision-making in the home, community, society and nation, and to gain “power”. According to the Country Report of GOvernment of India, “Empowerment meansmOlJingfrom aposition ofenforced powerlessness to one of power”. We examine the employees ofasuccessful rural NGO in India that has received accolades for its work in empowerment to establish if the employees actually “walk the talk”. Using three empowerment instruments, including one delJelopedfor this study, we find that employees indeed “walk the talk” and their index ofempowerment is related to their tenure in the NGO.
Woman Empowerment, Gender Equity, NGO Employees
