A brief case study on women empowerment with special reference to Assam

Women empowerment means empowering women with all their rights they should have in the family, society, school, college and country just like a man. It is to make them able so that they can make own independent decisions for their personal development. Women empowerment was introduced as a concept at the third International women‟s conference at Nairobi in 1985 which aimed at redistribution of social power and control of resources in favor of women, the control of resources related to society deals with education, employment and roles in the political field. It also emphasis on taking care of the home duties like income, property, health, nutrition and decision making. However, economic situation, education background and politically awareness plays a very crucial role in the development of women empowerment. Assam is one of the eight states of North East India. Assam is the largest state in the region in terms of population and second in geographical area. Therefore, women status is not very good in Assam. Because, in the education area position of women, strength of economic condition and politically aware of women in Assam is weaker and less than the other state of the country. Therefore, women empowerment can success through the politically, economically and educationally in Assam.