Empowerment of women in Kashmir: A critical appraisal

Empowerment of women can be defined as a multidimensional process which encourages women to realize and achieve their goals in all the spheres of life. Every day in newspaper we read about the crimes against women. It is hard to imagine the pain that women go through. Our society is male dominated and women never considered at par with men. Ever since the human life began women have been victimized in almost every arena of life. Owing to patriarchal society and deteriorating values, the so called traditions gradually affected the position of women turning it to be inferior and ill honored prone to harassment assault and many other social evils. This paper intend to highlight the present status of women empowerment in Kashmir and to access the status of crime against women and to examine critically the process of women empowerment in Kashmir. The paper is purely based on secondary sources of data and other relevant sources wherever found necessary. The authors found the significant impact on these variables.