According to an ILO report in 1980, women are 50 percent of the world’s population, doing 70 percent of the world’s work but receive only 10 percent of the income and own less than 01 percent of the property due to an accident of birth. In most of the countries, the average earnings of the women are lower than those of women. Women have confined their activities to selected professions such as education, nursing, medicine and office work. Very few women enter into fields like industry, engineering, commerce and trade. Women in traditional societies are still confined to the four walls of their home, their children, household affaires and family rituals. Very few get the opportunity to come out and enter into an economic activity. In a male dominated society, women are not treated as equal partners. Women in the past were contended to be full-time house wives. But in recent years women have made their mark in different walks of life and are competing successfully with men. We can recall a word on goat, “there is no green leave (soppu) which is untouched by the goat”. Similarly saying “there is no field which is un entered by the women”. This has been possible due to their education, political awaking, legal safeguards, social reforms, etc. the position and status of women also varies from urban to rural areas, the educated to the uneducated, the employed to the unemployed, the upper strata to the lower economic strata and also from job to job. In India women are working as company secretaries, teachers, typists, receptionists, air hostesses, nurses, welfare officers, painters, police, news readers and traders. Teaching profession is found to be the most suitable profession for them as it needs mental capacity than physical capacity. Now a days they are working as tourist guides, costume designers. More women are working in mass media too. The role of government in women empowerment is considerable. It takes up women empowerment through SHGs, Sthree Shakthi, AWAKE, Micro Finance and financial inclusion by commercial banks. Many people are found to hesitate while answering questions about women's empowerment. Empowering women entrepreneurs is essential for achieving the goals of sustainable development. The government of India safeguards the interests of women authorizer to bring the effective implementation and utilization of social, economic and political status of women in India. In order to face the problems faced by women entrepreneurs, the Government of India launched the scheme Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development of Women (TREAD). Though the working-women play a key role in the economic development of our country, they encounter a lot of problems in their life. This prompted the authors to take the present study.

Keywords: Empowerment, Mental Capacity, Accident of Birth, Sustainable Development.