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Synopsis Women's empowerment is a comparitively new concept in the domain of women's development. It is being felt increasingly that women's subordination and exploitation is a result of their powerlessness in patriarchal society--hence the need for empowerment. Empowerment is a complex terms and may be measured in terms of women's freedom to shape their lives, their control over resources, their access to basic facilities, their level of political participation, their ability to take their own decisions and get them accepted by family and society and their ability to remove hindrances in their path to progress. This book provides valuable information about rural women of Uttarakhand regarding all the above mentioned criteria, on the basis of primary data collected by the author for her research project and secondary data collected from other research studies. Rural women of Uttarakhand are known for their courage, perseverance and hard work. They are active in socio-political movements and are striving to improve their lives. But they still face many problems and need more guidance and encouragement from government and non-government agencies to empower them selves. This book will be of use to scholars of sociology and social work as well as to planners and social activists.