• Sandeep kumar

Historically, women have been regarded as constituting a weaker section. They have often been treated as “second grade citizens”. They have been pictured and presented as home makers” that are good in house hold chooses. This image of women has been changing everywhere. Extension of the voting right to women in Britain and America in the beginning of the 20th century brought about a series of changes in the status of women especially in the western world. Many of their disabilities and inequalities came to an end in due course. The quest for equality was pursued consistently by the western women. The term empowerment of women has become popular especially after 1980s. It refers to the process of strengthening the hands of women who have been suffering from various disabilities, inequalities and gender discrimination. It refers to the process of providing power to women to become free from the control of others that is to assume power to control her own life and to determine her own conditions. Women’s empowerment could also be understood as the process of providing equal rights, opportunities, responsibilities and power positions to women so that they are able to play a role on par with men in society.

Economic development, women empowerment.

"A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF WOMEN EMPOWERMNT THROUGH EDUCATION IN DIST BARAMULLA JAMMU AND KASHMIR:", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.103-111, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U66.pdf

"A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF WOMEN EMPOWERMNT THROUGH EDUCATION IN DIST BARAMULLA JAMMU AND KASHMIR:", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp103-111, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U66.pdf