Synopsis This collection of 21 papers is third volume in the three volume series on women's empowerment in India. Contributors include some of the best names in women's studies. This volume assesses the contemporary state of the art of study of women's problematic in India. This assessment is arranged on ten major themes: disaggregating women as a category; women's specific problems; health; education; women, work and workplace; women in new work areas; treatment of the women's empowerment by the Indian state; institutional experiments in facilitating women's empowerment; assessing women empowerment in India; and adequacy of research in women's problematic. The assessment identifies the fault lines in the focus of the feminist movement, the areas that need greater research probing and the steps that need to be taken to improve the pedagogy of the women's studies. The book would be of immense use to the activists of the feminist movement, feminist researchers, teachers in women's studies and professionals engaged in formulating policy, process, programme, and organization design of the women's empowerment in India.