Synopsis This book deals with most burning issue of modernization and women’s development. The process of modernization refers to the total transformation of economic, social and political institutions. This brings wide ranging changes in all institutional spheres of society resulting from one’s expanding knowledge and control over h is environment. This complex composite and mutldimentional process has opened new vistas for women’s development in traditional societies like India. The issue like awareness of right, leadership, national integration, the barriers, research and policy perspective etc. are dealt in detail.