Women empowerment is the capability of women to implement full control over ones actions. In the past women were treated as mere house makers. They were expected to be bound to the house while men went out and worked. This division of labour was and is still in a few parts of the country one of the major reason because of which certain evils took birth in our society child marriage female infanticide women trafficking.

The book consists of well written well analysed and well research material of very important chapters in a comprehensive way with women in the colonial era, effects of caste system on women, male reformers and womenss rights feminists and nationalists socio-economic empowerment teachers empowerment etc, written in a lucid style.