• Monalisa Chakraborty
• Mouparna Mukherjee
• Rima Das
• Dr. Arpita Bhattacharjee

Long before the word `empowerment’ became popular, women were speaking about gaining control over their lives, and participating in making the decisions that affect them in home and community, in government and international development policies. But problem is, very few have clear conception on empowerment. This is very easy to say but difficult to understand what is empowerment? This article takes an initiative to clarify the concept based on several scholars’ views. And finally, make a conclusion with alternative analysis of women’s empowerment. In India the scenario of women empowerment quite similar as other developing countries. This scenario is also varying between rural to urban areas as well as within the urban areas. Here we choose Kolkata as our study area and try to show how the women empowerment differs within a metropolitan city. We divided Kolkata into two regions as North Kolkata which is more traditional in nature and South Kolkata which is prone to modern culture. The study has been done by analyzing primary data, secondary data and using some statistical and GIS techniques. The paper also recommended some suggestion for further progress.

women empowerment, metropolitan city.

"Status of Women Empowerment: A Comparative Study Between North And South Kolkata", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.736-745, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812196.pdf

"Status of Women Empowerment: A Comparative Study Between North And South Kolkata", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp736-745, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812196.pdf