Women empowerment through political participation a socio...
Shilpa Prakash, Jadhav![Women empowerment through political participation a sociological study of women leaders](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/445/44542677/CHSBZCOP0344542677.jpg)
The concept of Women Empowerment reached momentum in the second half
of the 1990s. The Gender Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment
Measure (GEM) put forward by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP
1995) measure some aspects of women empowerment and found that both are
sufficient to measure women empowerment at the individual level. Women are the
victims of social, political, religious, and economic subordination and depriva...