Education – A Tool of Women Empowerment

Women empowerment is a multifacted and multidimensional concept. Education is a key part of the instrument to improve the individual‘s well being and societies. As the 2015 largest for achieving Millennium Development Goals approaches in which focus on girls education, mortality as well as sustainable Development. For this Education is potent tool in the emancipation of empowerment of women. The greatest single factor which can incredibly improve the status of women in any society is education. Education is the corner stone of women‘s empowerment because it enables them to respond to opportunities to challenge traditional roles and to change their lives. The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 decadal literacy growth of 9.2%, which is slower than the growth seen during the previous decade. There is a wide gender disparity in the literacy rate in India. The level of literacy is 82.14% for men and 65.46% for women. Despite all the developmental measures women is still lagging behind men in almost all walk of life. The present paper highlights role of education for enhancing the status of women in Indian context.