Significant Impact of Education for the Empowerment of the Urban Women

  • Dr. Kailash Soni, Dr. Kiran Soni

Abstract

Education is considered an essential element to an enhanced maintainable development; it is also regarded as the most powerful weapon that can be utilized to change the world. In India, Women's education has always been thebiggest concern for both the government and society because of the significant role of educated women in the development of the country. Education can bring revolutionary changes inwomen'sempowermentas it empowers them to act against all thedifficulties and to fight against all the odds of the society to change their way of living.Keeping in mind the significance of education in women empowerment our country is moving towards being a superpower and a developed nation by the end of 2020. Women's education is the most powerful device that can change the position of women in Indian society and hence help society in eliminating the disparities and raising their status within family and society. Women empowerment is not only required in rural areas of the country but it is equally important in urban sectors of Indian society.

 Thus this paper attempts to understand and find out the importance of education in women empowerment for urban women and attempts to find out and analyze the status of women empowerment in urban areas. The paper concludes that education is a powerful weapon for changing the position of urban women in society.

 Keywords; Women Empowerment, Education, Literacy rate, etc.

Published
2019-11-16
Section
Articles