This is a book about understanding women’s empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to women’s economic empowerment in rural India, as understood thro

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Empowerment means making someone equipped to bring about a change in the situations of inequality and discrimination. It is a process of challenging the existin

This book explores the critical linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society. It: Provid

This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines