Research Scholar, Department of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Allahabad
Online published on 20 June, 2019.
For the economic advancement and growth of any country the economic empowerment of women plays an important role. It is the fact that more of economic empowerment of half population of the country will result in the economic growth. It is thus, a major requirement of a country to concentrate on improving and promoting the economic empowerment of women. In our country India in the phase of education and job opportunities, the current era has reflected enhancement to the higher scale in the urban areas but still the conditions has not marked the significant improvements in rural as well as elite areas and women still lag behind in case of education and employment. The cultural values and illiteracy are the significant causes promoting the inequality. The economic empowerment of women shows the level of their employment or involvement in the economic activities, their financial and economic conditions and courage to take financial and economic decisions of their own. Their work talks about the development of women economic empowerment in our country, advantages and challenges as well as tips at micro finance floor and Information communication technology in empowering women economically in India.
Micro finance, culture, women participation, economic empowerment of women