Women empowerment-a challenge before Haryana government

In a male dominated society, women have always been underestimated and discriminated in all spheres of life be it their family and social life or their economic and political life. Despite traditional duties of managing households, rapid changes, technological developments and huge competition in the world is revealed the importance and necessity of empowering more and more. Over the years various efforts have been made by many Government and Non-Government organizations to promote women empowerment. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to find out what should be done to enhance women empowerment. The methodology adopted in this paper is to review critically the existing literature on empowerment both online and print. This study will contribute greatly to existing literature specifically in inspiring government and non govt. agencies to develop various strategies on how to achieve empowerment; the outcome from the review indicates that women empowerment is essential in this era of globalization to enable the country to respond quickly to any changes in the environment.