Assessing Women’s Empowerment in India

The objectives of the study are to assess the empowerment of adult urban women in India who have passed Class X. The study will be implemented in several phases. In the first phase, the study will cover a total of 11 states across five different regions of India – North, East, West, South and Central. This will ensure a reasonable spread of coverage and will enable us to draw meaningful comparisons at the regional level. The outcome of the study will be an index of women’s empowerment, which will help in comparing the status of empowerment across the states, and will help in determining the absolute as well as relative status of the states.

The study will also present the factors which affect women’s empowerment, along with their relative importance. The larger vision and objective of this work is to generate real evidence on women’s empowerment using ground-level information among various social and economic strata of our society.