Empowerment of Women in North East India: Socio-Economic Perspectives

Empowerment is a multi-acted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered strategy
which enables women to realize their full individuality and power in all spheres of
life. It also involves creating an atmosphere where women can use their
capability to address the fundamental problems of society at par with their male
counterparts. Due to various causes women are in an unfavourable position in
most of the countries. To overcome the present crisis, the empowerment of
women from all sides?economic, social, political, legal and educational etc. is
the urgent need.
The edited volume containing twenty-two papers, deals with various
issues/problems of empowerment of women in India with special focus on North
East and Mizoram perspectives.