Administrative strength. The concept of women empowerment would fetch volumes of meaning as everyone defines women empowerment in one’s own way on the basis of experience, age, gender, community etc. For some people, when there is absence of gender bias, a woman is said to be empowered.  For others if a woman is earning bread for her and her family she is empowered. If a woman becomes a decision maker she is identified as empowered woman. When she does not need company of her husband to go to bank and talk about loan she is assumed empowered.

KEYWORDS: Empowerment, empowered woman, poverty, rural development