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Women empowerment has been the subject matter of concern for decades in all countries of the world. India with specific reference has been subject to greater inequality with women empowerment being a distant dream even today in certain parts of the country. The paper is an attempt to highlight the significance of women empowerment for a nation. The current scenario prevalent with regard to women empowerment on various spheres in the country has been highlighted with various measures and the challenges for the same have been noted. The paper concludes that more micro-level assessment of women empowerment has to be done in India to make the various measures and schemes of the government more meaningful and help achieve gender equality.

Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or a group of women who initiate, organize and operate a business enterprise. Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs as an enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51 of the capital and giving at least 51 of employment generated in the enterprise to women. Women in business are the surprising phenomena India. Women entrepreneurs are emerged in business due to push and pull factors such as Saddled with household chores, death of bread winner and domestic responsibilities of women, want to get independence Such situation is described as pull factors. While in push factors women engaged in business desire to show their talent, to gain recognition, importance, social status etc. N.Md Faiyaz Ahmed "Women Entrepreneurship in India" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-5 , August 2017, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd2449.pdf

As the midterm election rapidly approaches, one thing is obvious—the number of women running for office is truly historic. There are 256 women running for Congress, 234 for seats in the House and 22 for seats in the Senate. The majority of the women running are Democrats. There are 197 Democratic female candidates and 59 Republican female candidates. The previous record for Democratic female nominees to the House was established in 2016, when 120 women were nominated, a record that is shattered by this year's numbers. Historically, women have never comprised more than one-fourth of the House or the Senate. This year, that might change.

[p. 4] ; column 4 ; 7 ¼ col. in. ; The Mormon women in Salt Lake City have held a convention to protest the anti-polygamy bill. The women believe that they "have greater and higher privileges than any other females on the face of the earth."

"From Protest to Policy: Women's Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999," a multi-year research project by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, examined the how grassroots advocacy has shaped gender-related public policy in the arts, employment, healthcare, and higher education through an analysis of local women's groups in Los Angeles between 1960 and 1999. During this period, women's community groups organized around gender-based problems their members encountered in their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods. The following timeline represents the key events surrounding this community activism and advocacy in the area of women's labor and worker's rights in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. This timeline also includes key events in federal legislation regarding labor and worker's rights in the United States.

Women in India are comparatively backward socially, economically and politically compared to other countries. Assam is one of the eight states of North East India and bordering 7 states like Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and West Bengal. With a geographical area of 78,438 sq. kms. i.e. about 2.4 percent of the countrys total geographical area, Assam provides shelter to 2,57 percent of the population of the country. Assam has a population of 31,160,272 as in 2011 census, of which 15,954,927 are males and 15,214,345 are females. The sex ratio (females per 1000 males) is 954 and the female literacy ratio is 67.27 percent.Women status is determined to a great extent in terms of socio-economic indicators such as income, poverty, education and skills that opens up opportunities of employment, better health. These indices are also vitally interlinked with the concepts of power and position. At the same time, women must have a share in the decision making process in the family and in the public sphere, and access the rights and opportunities provided by the state and society at large. Thus, this paper is trying to look into the different aspects that shape up the women status in Assam.

The first time I heard a woman describe her deployment in glowing terms, I was taken aback. Marine Colonel Jenny Holbert told me that being in charge of public affairs for the second battle of Fallujah was "probably one of the biggest events of my life, other than birthing two children." I thought, cynically, that this enthusiasm was all part of her role as a public-affairs officer. It took me a while to understand how compelling the experiences of being in a combat zone could be for the women I talked with. Colonel Holbert's enthusiasm for deployment was only one of many surprises I encountered over the course of the 52 interviews I did with women soldiers, sailors, coasties, airmen, and marines across the eastern seaboard.

A historical account of the important women behind the men of the Revolution, generally focusing upon General's wives, daughters and other relatives.

Has Portugal's transition to democracy since the 1974 revolution enhanced women's participation in politics? Has the democratisation process influenced women's access to elected offices? This paper offers an explanation of the Portuguese political system from a historical perspective, and an evaluation of the Portuguese political class in order to introduce the gender issue. Although the democratic regime is now more than 30 years old, there is still an under-representation of women in Portuguese politics, which is inscribed into the larger issue of women's access to all aspects of social, cultural and economic life. However, at all levels of government, women are better educated than men, with a larger proportion coming from the ranks of specialist professionals, teachers and top managers. Not surprisingly, left-wing parties recruit them in larger numbers.

In Thailand, as in most other Asian countries, politics has traditionally been a male preserve. Compared to men, women have not been visible in governance and politics. Although Thailand was among the first Asian countries to grant the right to vote to women, after almost seven and a half decades' of slow, incremental gains for women in politics, the representation of women remains no more than a blip on a political landscape dominated by men. There is still little analysis on the participation of women in politics at various levels of government in Thailand and research to date is fragmentary. However, interest in this field is growing in light of the development of democracy with the introduction of the new constitution in 1997, as well as changes in civil society. In this paper, the case of Thailand is used to achieve three main objectives. First, the position and advancement of women in the Thai parliament will be analyzed in order to contribute to research on women's political representation in the developing world. Second, the case of Thailand will be used to test some of the assumptions and theories developed in the advanced industrialized democracies of Europe and North America concerning the impact of women in public office. Third, the major barriers facing the entrance of women into the national parliament in Thailand will be examined to see whether the Thai case is consistent with research findings on women and politics in industrial democracies of the West.

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"From Protest to Policy: Women's Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999," a multi-year research project by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women examined the how grassroots advocacy has shaped gender-related public policy in the arts, employment, healthcare, and higher education through an analysis of local women's groups in Los Angeles between 1960 and 1999. During this period, women's community groups organized around gender-based problems their members encountered in their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods. The following timeline represents the key events in state and federal legislation regarding women's health initiatives as well as the development of grassroots organizations in Los Angeles that advocate for women's reproductive health, environmental health, drug and alcohol abuse education and treatment in women and minority populations.

An exhibit recognizes the stories of a group of Florida women who played important roles in politics, the environment, and the struggles for equal rights.

An exhibit recognizes the stories of a group of Florida women who played important roles in politics, the environment, and the struggles for equal rights.

An exhibit recognizes the stories of a group of Florida women who played important roles in politics, the environment, and the struggles for equal rights.