Name: Gagan Deep Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 12-31

Women constitute half of the total population throughout the world. The socio-economic development of a country is largely dependent upon the participation of women in the process. However, their contribution is not fully recognized in the monetary calculations of national income as most of the services are invaluable and cannot be attached any price. For example; success of men entrepreneurs is invariably highly associated with the conducive social and psychological atmosphere shaped by female family partners and rationalizing the family resource management. The fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing (China) in 1995 emphasized that no enduring solution to the society’s most threatening social, economic and political problems could be found without participation by women in the development programmes.
As the number of females seeking work expands and relatively the employment opportunities continue to shrink, they are either forced to work at lower wage rates or remain unemployed. They should be provided with alternative and more productive employment opportunities, as it requires additional family earnings as a source of livelihood and better utilization of unemployed potential human resources. To improve the status of women, they need to be empowered. The women empowerment means to make them self reliant, providing liberties to make choices in life and providing them knowledge and insight to take her own decisions.